ICYMI: Mallory McMorrow Highlights Costs of Trump’s Iran War on WHMI Radio

MICHIGAN — On Tuesday, Michigan Senate Majority Whip and candidate for U.S. Senate Mallory McMorrow spoke with WHMI’s Matt Hutchison, outlining her agenda if elected to the Senate and how Michiganders are paying for Trump’s war with Iran. They also discussed Mallory’s record of delivering on issues that matter to Michiganders, and her approach to problem-solving as someone who started her career in car design. 

Check out more from the interview below: 

WHMI: State Sen. McMorrow Courts Independents, Says Michiganders Are Paying for Iran War

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, making an explicit pitch to Livingston County's independent voters in a U.S. Senate race that could determine control of the chamber, said she believes her background makes her the best candidate to tackle high-profile issues such as healthcare, housing, data centers and AI.

Speaking on WHMI’s “Meet the People” podcast, McMorrow also reacted to breaking news about surging gas prices and said Michigan residents are paying an economic and human price for a war with Iran, which she said the United States had no reason to enter.

“People can’t afford to make ends meet. It’s killing us,” McMorrow said in the nearly 45-minute conversation. “And this wasn’t inevitable. It was a choice.

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She continued: “We’ve lost service members, and the President seems to write them off as expendable. And people are paying for it back home, whether it’s gas prices or in health care costs or in fertilizer. You know that's crushing our agricultural industry. We are paying the price for a war we had no reason to be dragged into.”

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With Gallup now finding that a record 45 percent of Americans identify as independents, McMorrow said she is the candidate best positioned to win that constituency, citing her private-sector background as an industrial designer and auto journalist and her accomplishments in the state Senate.

“My proudest moment as a legislator is when I get to introduce things that are not my ideas, that come directly from people, so that is my case to all voters, especially independent voters,” she said. “If you have a great idea, bring it to me. I want to champion it. I want to test it. Because the way we get out of this mess is not by relitigating the same stale ideas over and over and over again. It’s doing something totally new.”

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On housing, she called the national shortage an emergency and said the federal government should do more to clear red tape to expedite building. She cited the rapid reconstruction of a collapsed Pennsylvania highway under Gov. Josh Shapiro as a model. “All of a sudden they were able to build in days, not years,” she said. “It is a crisis. It is an emergency. Let’s treat it like that.”

On healthcare, she said a federal public option would drive down costs even for those who keep their private coverage. “In the states that have implemented a public option, they have not only seen the uninsured rate collapse to almost zero, they’ve seen the cost of private health insurance come down as well, because you’re creating a competitive marketplace.”

On AI, McMorrow – who has co-sponsored legislation targeting social media addiction, data privacy and potentially harmful AI chatbot interactions – warned against repeating the mistakes made with social media.

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Despite the divisions inside the party and the turbulence of the campaign, McMorrow said she believes most voters share more in common than the current political environment suggests.

“Everybody wants a safe community, good schools for their kids, clean water and clean air,” she said. “More than anything else, what I hear from people is they just want it to be boring again.”

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