As Democrats brace for a bruising main in Michigan’s US Senate race, Mallory McMorrow, one of many social gathering’s high contenders, has quietly deleted 1000’s of previous tweets — together with posts through which she took jabs on the rural Midwest, lamented ever leaving California, and mentioned she continued to vote there after she mentioned she’d moved completely to Michigan.
McMorrow, a Michigan state lawmaker and rising star within the Democratic Party, wrote in her 2025 autobiography that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014.
Yet a NCS KFile overview of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine reveals a collection of now-deleted social media posts of McMorrow describing herself as a California resident as late as July 2016.
McMorrow repeatedly referenced voting in California’s June 2016 Democratic main and urged voters to register for it. In different now-deleted posts, McMorrow additionally described herself in July 2016 as a constituent of California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu and referenced voting in particular person in November 2014 within the Los Angeles area, the place she was a resident on the time.
Public information present she registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016.
On high of questions on McMorrow’s voting report, the deleted tweets supply a window into her political evolution. Among the roughly 6,000 deleted posts are people who replicate a variety of progressive views, from considering a future with out automobiles, to supporting the Black Lives Matter motion, to evaluating President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis.
McMorrow additionally deleted feedback concerning the US coasts breaking off from Middle America following the 2016 election of Trump.
“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. “Oh and The Ring nominated Obama as Prime Minister and everyone was given $1,000 and six months to pick a side.”
Her marketing campaign declined to make clear whether or not the publish referred to a literal dream or a hypothetical state of affairs she hoped for.
In latest years, McMorrow has espoused extra reasonable views and has branded herself because the pragmatist in a crowded Democratic Senate main that’s shaping as much as be among the many extra aggressive races this yr. McMorrow is locked in a lifeless warmth towards US Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit public well being official.
A spokesperson for McMorrow, Hannah Lindow, mentioned the marketing campaign deleted all her tweets previous to 2020, describing it as “pretty standard for candidates.” She mentioned that McMorrow’s transfer from California to Michigan “was a process” that was not full till mid-2016, that she remained registered to vote in California throughout that point, and that she voted absentee in June 2016.
Lindow mentioned McMorrow considers 2014 the beginning of that transfer.
“These are normal tweets by a normal person,” mentioned Lindow, McMorrow’s communications director. “As Michigan’s Senate majority whip, Mallory has spent the past eight years fighting and delivering to make people’s lives better: higher wages, universal pre-K, no kid going hungry in schools, comprehensive gun violence prevention laws, and more. And she’s tweeted about that too.”
McMorrow’s marketing campaign declined to say which positions she did and didn’t stand by, apart from to say she stood by a remark lamenting the Michigan climate.
Michigan’s Senate race is likely one of the most essential within the nation in figuring out management of the chamber. It is one in every of solely two seats in 2026 held by Democrats in states Trump gained in 2024, the opposite being Georgia.
With Democrats turning into extra bullish about their possibilities to retake the Senate on this yr’s midterms, the Michigan main, scheduled for August, is shaping up to be a critical race.
McMorrow shouldn’t be the one Democrat within the race who has deleted social media posts. Last yr, NCS reported that El-Sayed quietly erased thousands of old social media posts — together with a dozen tweets that championed the “defund the police” motion, described police as “standing armies,” and urged cities to divert cash from legislation enforcement to social companies.
Archived snapshots preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine present that in 2022, McMorrow’s X account contained more than 20,000 tweets. Now, the account shows simply 13,900 tweets.
Her deleted posts seem to have been eliminated after a 2025 New York Post story first highlighted McMorrow’s disparaging remarks about Michigan and “Middle America” after Trump’s election in 2016, with a number of of the posts cited in that report now not accessible on-line, including one praising a thread arguing that rural Americans — not coastal elites — wanted to raised perceive the remainder of the nation.
In one tweet in January 2017, when a person wrote, “California should have its own diplomats” to “make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country,” Morrow responded, “There are days like these that make me miss California even more.”
In asserting her state Senate marketing campaign in 2017, McMorrow struck a really totally different tone.
“Choosing to put roots down right here in Michigan is the best decision I’ve ever made,” she wrote on her marketing campaign web site on the time.
Her deleted posts span a variety of subjects.
Some present McMorrow expressing light-hearted help for a future with out automobiles; highlighting a “white privilege” seminar at her alma mater, University of Notre Dame; and saying a southern border wall would restrict the circulation of avocados into the United States.
“Pushing for [a] future where we don’t own cars… Cars are dead,” she joked in a single thread. “What about all the avocados from Mexico? If that wall gets built, bye avocados,” she said in one other. “I’m particularly proud of my alma mater #NotreDame for offering a White Privilege seminar,” reads a since-purged 2014 publish.
“Mallory started her career as a car designer and doesn’t want to ban cars. She’s been repeatedly endorsed by auto unions,” a spokesperson instructed NCS.
Some of the deleted posts might show politically delicate in a state that Trump has carried twice, and the place auto manufacturing and rural communities are central to the political panorama.
Multiple deleted posts from McMorrow additionally had comparisons between the United States beneath Trump and Nazi Germany.
Just over per week into Trump’s first time period in January 2017, McMorrow wrote, “Dr. Seuss, 1941. We’ve been here before, America. #AmericaFirst #NoMuslimBan,” linking to a Dr. Seuss cartoon about Nazi Germany. When one other user wrote in July 2017 that that they had “zero faith” they might change the minds of Trump supporters, McMorrow responded, “Agreed. But how do we fight back? Hitler had supporters. Stalin had supporters. Putin has supporters. No one will change their minds.”
In another post in October 2020, McMorrow shared a video that includes a Holocaust survivor warning about parallels between Nazi Germany and “Trump and his authoritarian aspirations.” McMorrow added, “Please watch the full 4-minute mini doc that a dear friend created with Walter, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, warning about the parallels he sees between the rise of Nazi Germany and America today.”
Another tweet from February 2016, shortly after the dying of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, mentioned, “Thoughts after Scalia, on life: Never be the type of person that makes people cheer when you’re dead.”
Other posts had been extra ambivalent about Michigan.
In a deleted tweet from November 2016, responding to a different person’s remark about range in a Detroit diner, McMorrow wrote that one in every of her “first reactions” after Trump’s election victory was, “I wish I never left California,” earlier than including that after per week in Detroit she needed to purchase a house there.
In one other post from March 2016 shortly after she moved to the state, McMorrow complained concerning the climate, writing, “Yesterday it was nearly 50 and now the sky is just shitting ice on everything. I don’t like you, Michigan.”
McMorrow’s marketing campaign stood by her feedback telling NCS, “The Michigan sky does in fact sometimes shit ice. She stands by that.”
Though McMorrow’s e-book tags her transfer occurring in 2014, in a 2015 interview McMorrow mentioned she moved in 2015. Instagram posts on her-personal-turned-campaign-Instagram present she listed her Los Angeles-area condo being vacated in March 2016.
It’s unclear why she might proceed to vote in California, after establishing residency in Michigan, however McMorrow shared a New York Magazine story that April concerning the state’s Democratic main being essential for the primary time in a long time. She later shared a crying picture of the late actor James Van Der Beek of “Dawson’s Creek” fame lamenting the Democratic main being settled earlier than California voted.
Under California legislation, solely state residents are eligible to vote in California elections, with residency outlined as a voter’s established domicile and intent to stay.
In 2024, McMorrow chastised a Twitter person who mentioned they voted in a state they now not lived in when in a spat with a voter who moved to California however nonetheless voted in Michigan writing, “So you moved for work and live in California but are registered somewhere you no longer live?…that’s illegal.”