Oct 31, 2025
Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow
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Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow
Exit leaves primary voters to choose between progressive Abdul El-Sayed and centrist Haley Stevens in must-win seat
Roque Planas at The Guardian:
Mallory McMorrow, a Michigan Democrat, has dropped out of a contentious US Senate primary campaign, setting up a straight fight between the party’s progressive and establishment wings – represented by Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, and Haley Stevens, a congresswoman. McMorrow’s retreat marks the end of a center-left bid to hold the seat being vacated this year by the Democrat Gary Peters. The three-way primary contest was a close one earlier in the campaign, but polls indicated that McMorrow’s support had plunged in recent weeks, as El-Sayed raced past her and Stevens to emerge as the frontrunner for the party’s nomination. “I may be suspending this campaign, but I am not leaving the fight,” McMorrow said in a video statement announcing her decision to drop out. “When regular people get in the fight, things can change,” she added.
With McMorrow’s exit, the August Democratic primary now evolves into what is becoming a familiar pattern of an establishment candidate facing an opponent from the left. El-Sayed, a supporter of Medicare for all who would be the first Muslim US senator, has drawn high-profile backing from leaders of the American left, including the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed him last week.
Stevens, a moderate Democrat, has the support of Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, and Super Pacs have spent more than $16m on her campaign, including pro-Israel groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) outraged by El-Sayed’s refusal to say that nation has a right to exist as a Jewish state. “Israel exists,” he told CNN last week. “The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid, instead of investing in our own kids.”
Schumer and other leaders of the Democratic establishment are betting that Stevens would have a better chance of staving off Republican Mike Rogers’s attempt in the November general election, despite the fact that Democratic voters have chosen leftwing challengers over incumbent lawmakers in a string of recent primaries, from New York to Colorado.
McMorrow first attracted national attention in 2022, with a viral speech denouncing Republican attempts to characterize her as a “groomer” for publicly defending LGBTQ+ rights. Her US Senate seat campaign had attracted support from prominent Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
But McMorrow’s political star fell in tandem with her public criticism of El-Sayed for campaigning in April with Hasan Piker, an influential leftwing streamer who has been accused of antisemitism for comments about Jews and once said that America “deserved” the September 11 attacks, a comment he later apologized for and cast as a bad joke. McMorrow told Jewish Insider in March, when Piker campaigned with El-Sayed, that the popular streamer was “somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks and views”, likening him to Nick Fuentes, the prominent white nationalist. That criticism appeared to fall flat, with McMorrow dropping in public polls from roughly even with El-Sayed and Stevens in early April to a distant third in May and registering in single digits in four polls in June.
As a result of State Sen. Mallory McMorrow cutting short her run for the position, Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary is down to two: Rep. Haley Stevens and former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed.
I finally made a tier list for the women Nick has maybe been attracted to
Occasionally, Nick does appear to have some attraction to women. Here are some of them. What do you think of them?
I've been accused of calling Nick Fuentes gay when he is so clearly attracted to women! You know what? Fine! I made a tier-list for the boys he maybe likes, so here's one for the girls:
This was really hard becaus he is so inconsistent here and will sometimes call a woman hot clearly because other people think so, but then call her mid some next day (so no Ella Maulding on this list; him calling her mid cancels out him calling her hot with Sneako). Giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he does have some amount of attraction to women, these are the ones where it felt the most genuine to me personally. If you think someone else really belongs on this list, let me know and I might edit it the way that I edited the guys one.
I gave it the same ranking system as the other one.
Awooga: Brittany Venti - she's a babe! I love her hair, I love her glasses, she has a nice figure. People say she has a weird, hammerhead shark-looking face, but that's part of it! I think she has a pretty face and the fact that it's sort of unusual makes her prettier. It seemed like she liked Nick back, so he really fumbled the bag here.
Kathy Zhu - Very pretty lady, very striking features. It's easy to see why she was Miss Michigan. She's also the only woman I can think of that Nick has been accused of hooking up with, so lucky him if that's true (though I find that tale just as believable as most of the guy ones, that is, not very).
Cute: Candace Owens - very pretty lady, very well put-together, has a strong personality. She say a lot of dumb stuff, like that Macron is married to his father, but she says it in an engaging way.
Lauren Chen - very cute and close to awooga, though loses points for being too dumb to know a Russian oligarch was paying her.
Stardust - she shoots up to awooga-tier when she puts on glasses, but that's not often enough to make a difference. She's super cute and appears to have a fun personality, I get why Nick was thirsting after her that one time.
Melina Goransson - The succubus that wanted to seduce Nick! She has very interesting features and seems fun from her IG stories. Also, she must be very patient to have put up with Destiny for those years that they were married.
Mallory McMarrow - We love a put-together, professional woman with a fiery presentation and she's a redhead!
I get it, but don't share it: Kamala Harris - I definitely get it. She's a very pretty lady and professional and all of that, but her politics and presentation-style are too normie (McMarrow has normie politics too, but she has a more engaging presentation style when speaking that gives her more points).
Nikki Haley - See previous. Pretty lady, but not interesting enough. Kamala is a normie Democrat and Nikki is a normie Republican. Seriously, extremist politics that I disagree with are more interesting than normies. I do think some of her one-liners snarking Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy were pretty funny, though.
OK, I guess: Brett Cooper - I see her on those "right-wing hotties" lists all the time and I don't think she's ugly or anything, but she's not as interesting as the others, aesthetically or personality-wise.
Wat: Lucky you, Nick, I didn't personally put any of the women in the "Wat" tier. You either have great taste in women or are realy good at picking women to pretend to be attracted to!
What are your rankings, fellow Nickstorians?
Mallory McMorrow talks about contacting your representatives, building those muscles, and forging real relationships that create change.
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, who is running for U.S. Senate, discussed her campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat and the path fo
She didn't equivocate and she supports Bernie Sanders' arms sales ban.
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Democratic Party "leadership" poised to screw up massively in Michigan and elsewhere.
Nobody with sense who wants to win a senate seat for the party would tee up an uninspiring candidate who votes aligned with the fossil fuel industry and takes money from fossil fuels. They're trying to thwart 2 candidates that are popular because they stand up strong for the values that the Democratic Party is supposed to embrace, like nationally viral Mallory McMorrow.
The New Republic - Aaron Regunberg / August 13, 2025 Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections. We’re seeing this play out very clearly in the Senate race in Michigan. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, backed by Bernie Sanders, is a full-throated progressive populist (and an occasional TNR contributor). State Senator Mallory McMorrow is running as a D.C. outsider. Both are charismatic communicators and strong grassroots fundraisers; despite refusing to take corporate PAC money, they raised $1.8 million and $2.1 million, respectively, in the last quarter. So naturally the Democratic establishment is pushing hard for a third candidate, with reports that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, are privately encouraging donors to line up behind Congresswoman Haley Stevens. Stevens is not charismatic in person. She is not an effective communicator online; her social media posts regularly get single-digit engagement. She’s not a strong fundraiser; she raised less than either McMorrow or El-Sayed, with just $1.3 million in new contributions last quarter, despite being the only candidate in the race taking money from corporations. And she’s taking a lot of it, with hundreds of thousands of dollars from nearly 100 different corporate PACs representing Wall Street (Goldman Sachs, the American Bankers Association); fossil fuels (Dupont, Dow, the American Chemistry Council); insurance (UnitedHealth, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield), utilities (Cox, Verizon, DTE); Big Tech (Google, Microsoft); retailers (Walmart, Home Depot); Big Sugar; and many, many others.
Mallory McMorrow announcing a US Senate run in Michigan
Worth watching. Democrats need this energy.
