lgbtq
President
2020
Smeared as a Groomer, a Michigan Democrat Goes on Offense
As Mallory McMorrow awoke last Monday morning, she found herself transformed into a creature she didn’t recognize. A colleague in the Michigan State Senate, Lana Theis, had sent a fund-raising email accusing her of wanting to “groom and sexualize” children. Theis, a Republican who has latched on to Donald Trump’s fantasy of a stolen 2020 election, had invented an outrageous smear against someone who wasn’t even a direct political opponent.