ICYMI: McMorrow Contrasts with Opponents as Campaign Launches First Ad

“There's a different path. I'm somebody who has won tough elections. I've built real power, and I know how to do the job.”

MICHIGAN — This morning, Michigan Senate Whip and U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow joined Michigan’s Big Show with Michael Patrick Shiels and WJR Radio to discuss her new ad, her track record of fighting and delivering for Michiganders, and how she’ll win against Mike Rogers in November.

Excerpts from the interviews are below:

On her new TV ad:

We're actually up on TV with our first ad today, and especially in this primary, the entire country is watching, and I feel like there is sort of a false buy-in with Abdul. You've got a candidate who promises a lot of big things, who has never won an election before. And then with Haley Stevens, you've got somebody who's backed by Chuck Schumer, who still takes corporate PAC donations, who isn't doing any public events. So there's either this idea that you have to accept the status quo or take a risk on somebody who's never done it before, and with our ad up today, I'm introducing myself to so many voters to say there's a different path, I'm somebody who has won tough elections. I've built real power, and I know how to do the job.

On her track record of fighting and delivering:

We're in a tough Democratic primary, but I am the only candidate in the race who has beaten an entrenched Republican incumbent to get into office. There are a lot of Republicans who had never voted for a Democrat who voted for me in my first race, I helped flip the entire state Senate to Democrats for the first time in almost 40 years, and as majority whip, I'm proud to have delivered on everything from expanding civil rights and voting rights to affordable housing to repealing the seniors pension tax, and so much more. And that is a blueprint for Michiganders who are pragmatic and practical, that I think we should send to Washington.

On Mike Rogers choosing Trump over Michigan:

But [Mike Rogers has] made a big bet that the only way to win in today's Republican party is to do everything Donald Trump wants to do. He has been railing against the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge. When Donald Trump declared war in Iran, Mike Rogers celebrated and said this was peace through strength, even though this war was going to cost Americans $1.5 trillion and the president told us we can't have daycare, we can't have Medicare, we can't have Medicaid, and the Strait of War moves today is closed again. So we can't afford Mike Rogers, not this Mike Rogers, and I am the only candidate who has a track record of beating MAGA Republicans, building real power, but not just winning, actually building coalitions and moving policy that benefits Michigan families.

On fighting corruption:

Americans feel like government is corrupt and it is not working for them. Whether that is Citizens United, which we need to overturn, we need to get dark money out of politics, we need to ensure that there is a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists, or consultants. That is something that Mike Rogers did in the past, is became a consultant selling his influence, having been a previous member of Congress. But also for our Supreme Court instituting ethics requirements, that if they violate ethics requirements, there should be penalties.

On data centers:

Look, I can tell you that all of our constituents, across our districts, and it's happening on both sides of the aisle, are raising the alarm about feeling like data center development is happening, that it is too often happening to communities instead of with communities. So our package of bills would create the strongest data center regulations in the entire country, ensuring that Michigan residents' energy rates won't go up, that the data center companies would be required to bring new renewable energy onto the grid for all of us to benefit. It cannot harm Michigan's air or water, must use local union labor and deliver real tangible results for the community, so that is something that the community wants, that is done on the community's terms, not on these tech companies' terms.

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I've been campaigning now across the entire state for well over a year, so being able to bring that perspective into even developing this bill package, where I'm hearing from Michiganders all across the state. I'll give you an example. I was at a building trades breakfast, and there was a guy who said, you know, he's going to benefit from these data center build-outs. He's excited about the job and the job security, but he asked: How do I know that the thing that I'm building won't be used to surveil me and my family, and won't be used to drop bombs in other countries? That is a heavy, heavy question, which is why on my campaign, on the federal side, I rolled out comprehensive AI policy to talk about AI and job disruption, AI safety. Because it's not just the data centers, it's what the data centers are for, and it's been really cool to see that the campaign has given me the ability to talk to more Michiganders in a way that I think informs this building to meet this moment.

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