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What Next - Best Of 2022 | The Michigan Democrat Who Said “Enough”

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow went viral in April for striking back at an extreme characterization made by a Republican colleague. The video of McMorrow’s speech—viewed over 14 million times—tells a bigger story about how national political rhetoric is affecting local political debates. But is the senator really demonstrating how to reset the terms of debate? Or is she just one more person who went viral for speaking to her echo chamber?


As summer winds down, we're replaying some of our favorite episodes from this year. This episode originally aired on May 3, 2022.


Guest: Mallory McMorrow, Michigan state senator representing Grand Oak and the suburbs north of Detroit. 

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0:00.0

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

0:10.0

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

0:15.0

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

0:20.0

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

0:25.0

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:30.0

Hey everyone, this week we are replaying some of our favorite episodes from the last year.

0:35.0

Episodes that seem even more important in retrospect.

0:39.0

Today I'm sharing a conversation from back in April.

0:42.0

At the time Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow had just gone viral

0:46.0

for her striking response to being labeled a groomer by a Republican colleague.

0:51.0

Going into midterms, a lot of Democrats are going to face the same choice McMorrow did this spring.

0:57.0

They'll need to decide how hard to fight. All right, here we go.

1:07.0

So Senator McMorrow, you've been really really busy.

1:11.0

Do you feel like you have stepped off of the rollercoaster yet?

1:15.0

Oh my goodness, no.

1:17.0

Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow has been doing interviews nonstop since April 19th.

1:25.0

That's when she tweeted out a video of herself.

1:28.0

Thank you, Mr. President.

1:30.0

In it, she is standing on the floor of the Michigan Senate and she is delivering a speech

1:35.0

calling out a Republican colleague for using the increasingly alarmist language

1:41.0

of the modern conservative movement.

1:43.0

I didn't expect to wake up yesterday to the news that the Senator from the 22nd District

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