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Mallory McMorrow is jumping into the race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, planting her flag in what’s expected to become one of the highest-profile Senate races of the 2026 midterms.

Mallory McMorrow, while still a state senator, has become a national brand after a viral video rebuking GOP claims.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow hopes to go from the State Senate to the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday (April 2), she announced that she was running for the open U.S. Senate seat. “This was always on my mind. But I don’t think that many people anticipated Senator Peters’ announcement when it happened,” McMorrow said.

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow became the first Democrat to announce her candidacy for retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters's (D-MI) seat Wednesday. The race is expected to be one of the most hotly contested in the 2026 elections.

State Senator Mallory McMorrow of Michigan, a Democrat from the Detroit suburbs, jumped into her state’s U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, becoming the first prominent candidate to enter the contest, which will help decide control of the chamber next fall.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat from Royal Oak, is the first candidate to officially launch a campaign for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat

We need new leaders. Because the same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it,” McMorrow declared in her campaign launch video.

State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a rising star of the Democratic Party, has officially announced her bid for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat.