Democratic candidate attends fundraiser with leftist who mocked Charlie Kirk’s murder

As conservatives across the country remember Charlie Kirk on his first anniversary since his assassination, some also remember how many on the left, including elected officials, refused to condemn those who mocked, or even supported, his death.

A little more than a week after Kirk’s killing, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat currently running for U.S. Senate, attended a fundraiser for her campaign hosted by liberal commentator Rebecca Schoenkopf who posted on social media mocking Kirk hours after his shooting.

Schoenkopf, who runs left-wing blog Substack, mockingly reposted a news article on Bluesky with the caption “oo” about people paying witches on Etsy to curse Kirk.

The day after Kirk’s murder, Schoenkopf criticized the firing of professors who mocked Kirk and sarcastically called Kirk a “hero to the end”, blaming him for creating an environment of hostility.

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Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (R), a candidate for U.S. Senate, attended a campaign fundraiser with a liberal commentator who mocked Charlie Kirk (L) after his death. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

“Looks like we’re firing a lot of teachers this week for specious and selectively edited reasons. Charlie Kirk built this. A hero to the end,” Schoenkopf wrote.

In a blog post the same day, she wrote: “Anyway, Charlie Kirk was shot at Utah Valley University yesterday, and he died…It seems like we should do something about guns.”

The next day, she criticized the firing of a person who she said “rightly pointed out that Charlie Kirk unfortunately espouses a lot of hate.”

His blog, which previously called Kirk a “racist, anti-Semitic, sign-language-oppressed, short-pants-wearing, human Adobe pinch tool,” also published several posts mocking Kirk’s death.

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Charlie Kirk speaks before being murdered during the Turning Point tour at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

In a blog post titled “The Second Amendment Comes for Charlie Kirk,” the author wrote that Kirk “was an enthusiastic participant in the campaign to push American politics toward constant outrage and violent rhetoric.”

The author concluded by writing that “it seems that with his murder, we are now moving closer to that moment that a Kirk fan was dreaming of right next to my house in Idaho, where the patriots might finally start shooting at the Democrats.”

Another post on Schoenkopf’s blog titled “The Evil Men Do Lives After Them,” called Kirk a “professional lord” and a “low-rent troll,” and argued that “being the victim of a senseless assassination does not ennoble anything the man has done in his career of trolling, lying and pushing hatred.”

Another blog post ended with a video of Virginia Baptist pastor Howard-John Wesley calling Kirk “an unapologetic racist, sowing the seeds of hatred and division,” and saying, “I’m sorry, but there is nowhere in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil, and the way you die does not redeem the way you lived. You don’t become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life.”

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An image of murdered conservative commentator Charlie Kirk is placed on a memorial in his honor at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, September 29, 2025. (Jim Urquhart/Reuters)

McMorrow took a very different tone, posting on the day Kirk was shot: “I am horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah. Violence like this is abhorrent and is never acceptable” and “while we virulently disagree, we stand for free speech, and nowhere should free debate be more encouraged or protected than college campuses.”

Despite this, McMorrow attended a fundraiser held at Schoenkopf’s Detroit home on September 21, eleven days after Kirk’s murder.

Schoenkopf wrote a blog post explaining her support for McMorrow, saying, “she’s tired of offering olive branches to people who light them on fire.”

“I want a senator who is good and damn angry, and who understands how good and damn angry we are, and who won’t pick on progressives (or centrists, or libs) to make herself look better to some Democratic consultant in the sky,” Schoenkopf wrote.

On the day of the fundraiser, McMorrow herself wrote on social media that “since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have seen too many people use his assassination as an excuse to divide, to blame the so-called ‘radical left,’ from the President of the United States to his colleagues in my own legislature.

AFTER KIRK ASSASSINATION, LEGISLATORS RESPOND TO DEAD POLITICAL CLIMATE: “VIOLENT WORDS PRECEED VIOLENT ACTIONS”

Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow holds up a book about Project 2025 during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, Monday, August 19, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Political violence knows no party, and if we cannot come together on both sides of the aisle to bring our states and our country together and speak with one voice against anyone who would seek to settle differences through violence rather than through conversation or the ballot box, then our nation will remain divided. Stirring up hatred, division, anger, and fear only serves to perpetuate this horrible cycle,” McMorrow wrote.

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In response to Fox News Digital’s request for comment, a representative for McMorrow’s campaign highlighted her two social media posts discussing Kirk’s murder.

Fox News Digital also reached out to Schoenkopf for comment but did not immediately receive a response.