Michigan Rep. Mallory McMorrow, who trashed rural Americans, suspends Senate bid after polling collapse

Mallory McMorrow built her national brand on a viral speech about tolerance, then reportedly went around trashing rural Americans in private or semi-private settings, and now she's out of a Senate race before a single primary vote gets cast. That's not bad luck. That's a candidate whose polling told her the mask-off version of herself doesn't sell in a state with Traverse City and the Upper Peninsula in it, not just Ann Arbor and Ferndale.

Michigan Democrats aren't short on this instinct. Plenty of them talk a good game about unity and then can't help themselves when the cameras are off, and rural voters have gotten very good at hearing the difference. McMorrow found that out the expensive way.

Now it's El-Sayed versus Stevens, and neither one solves the underlying problem for Democrats in a state Trump has now won twice. You can't out-condescend your way to Grand Rapids. If the party keeps fielding candidates who see half the state as a punchline, they shouldn't be shocked when half the state votes accordingly.