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By Shane Croucher
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Mallory McMorrow, a rising star in the Democratic Party, has announced that she is running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan.
McMorrow, 38, has distanced herself from national Democrats in a battleground state won by President Donald Trump. She had said for some time that she was seriously considering a run for the Senate.
The Michigan state senator says the Democratic Party needs to give Trump voters a compelling message and a refreshed leadership that can block the current administration's overhaul of the federal government.
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"I have been so frustrated seeing really a lack of a plan and a lack of a response coming from our current party leadership," McMorrow told The Associated Press.
She said voters are tired of Democrats' "gimmicks" and was critical of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who reluctantly voted in favor of Republicans' spending bill last month.
"It's so lacking the urgency of this moment," said McMorrow, a second-term state lawmaker who got a speaking role at last year's Democratic National Convention.
McMorrow had told Newsweek back in February that Democrats needed to start talking to voters in their own language, not in "Washington speak" from behind a podium at the Capitol.
"Most people do not speak in bills or continuing resolutions or House resolutions," she said at the time.
"Talk about any issue that we are working on like you would talk to your friend at a bar, which means be excited when there's things to be excited about.
"Speak in simple language that you know—when you are conveying a story— everybody from your grandma to your friend to a fifth grader to your neighbor who never watches the news should get it."
McMorrow was first elected to the state legislature in 2018.
She went viral in 2022 after giving a fiery floor speech criticizing a Republican lawmaker who attacked her in a campaign fundraising email over her support for LGBTQ+ rights and falsely accused her of wanting to "groom" children.
"I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom" who wants "every kid to feel seen, heard and supported—not marginalized and targeted because they are not straight, white and Christian," McMorrow said in the speech.
The lawmaker, who represents a Detroit suburban area and serves in caucus leadership, has sponsored Democratic legislation on gun control and reproductive rights.
This article includes reporting by The Associated Press.
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