The ‘straight, white, Christian, suburban mom’ taking on Republicans at their own game

Mallory McMorrow's riposte to a hurtful slander by a colleague in the Michigan state senate that she wanted to groom' children went viral and has been hailed as a midterms blueprint for Democrats

Mallory McMorrow remembers the sting of being slandered by a colleague for wanting to groom" and sexualize" young children. I felt horrible," she says. But instead of shrugging it off or trying to change the subject, as Democrats are often criticised for doing, the state senator from Michigan decided to fight back.

In just four minutes and 40 seconds, McMorrow delivered a fierce, impassioned floor speech at the state capitol that went viral on social media and earned a laudatory phone call from the US president.