Mallory McMorrow under fire for deleting controversial tweets ahead of Senate primary race

Mallory McMorrow, one of the top Democratic Party candidates, has come under fire due to its suspicious activity of deleting approximately 6,000 tweets.

The controversial move comes at a crucial time when the Democratic party is prepared for the primary in Michigan’s US Senate race. These posts reveal discrepancies regarding when she moved from California to Michigan.

McMorrow in her 2025 autobiography disclosed that she moved permanently to Michigan in 2014. But, according to CNN KFile’s investigation, those deleted posts showed that the state lawmaker was a California resident as late as July 2016.

Discrepancies also found in her voting history in California. Despite claiming 2014 as her move year, McMorrow tweeted about voting in California’s June 2016 primary and referred to herself as a constituent of a California congressman in July 2016.

Here lies another irony. In 2024, McMorrow also publicly criticized a voter for casting a ballot in the state in which they no longer live, calling this act “illegal.” In reality, her posts showed she did the same.

Comments on ‘Middle America’ and rural Midwest

McMorrow also posted comments disparaging “Middle America” and rural Midwest. In 2016, she described a dream where the US coasts, Mexico and Canada divided into a new nation, which she hypothetically called “The Ring” leaving “Middle America” behind.

“I had a dream that the U.S. amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts + Can + Mex + parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,” she wrote in December 2016.

McMorrow’s spokesperson, Hannah Lindow, defended her decision by calling it “deleting tweets prior to 2020 is standard for candidates and McMorrow’s move was a process rather than a single event. While critics point to the posts as evidence of a "political evolution" from a coastal progressive to a Michigan pragmatist.

The Michigan Senate seat is one of the most important for Democratic control of the chamber, as it is one of only two seats held by Democrats in states that Donald Trump won in 2024.