Top Dem Candidate Scrubs Social Media After Trashing Rural Americans

One of the leading Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate in Michigan is playing defense after a CNN report revealed that she purged thousands of tweets, including posts in which she disparaged Middle America after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory.

McMorrow, who currently serves in the Michigan Senate, deleted around 6,000 social media posts, including tweets in which she said she missed living in California and fantasized about the coasts breaking off from Middle America. The New York Post was the first to report on some of McMorrow’s ramblings last year.

Two days after Trump shocked Democrats and defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat urged her followers to read a thread posted by journalist Patrick Thornton, who wrote, “All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.”

“It is much of white working class America that needs to reach outside its comfort zone and meet people not like them,” Thornton wrote at the time. “Many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas.” McMorrow said the thread “rings 100%.”

A month later, McMorrow fantasized about coastal states divorcing Middle America.

“I had a dream that the U.S. amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts + Can + Mex + parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America. Oh and The Ring nominated Obama as Prime Minister and everyone was given $1,000 and six months to pick a side,” she posted.

The Daily Wire reached out to McMorrow’s campaign, requesting comment.

The CNN report also raises questions about McMorrow’s claim that she moved to Michigan from California in 2014, as social media posts suggest she was still living in Los Angeles and voting in California elections as late as 2016. In her autobiography, McMorrow wrote that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014.

In January 2017 — the month that Trump was sworn in for his first term — a social media user posted, “California should have its own diplomats [to] make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country.” McMorrow responded to the post, writing, “There are days like these that make me miss California even more.”

Just a few months later, McMorrow launched her state Senate bid and said, “Choosing to put roots down right here in Michigan is the best decision I’ve ever made.”

In another tweet, McMorrow quipped that she was “pushing for [a] future where we don’t own cars,” adding, “Cars are dead.” McMorrow is now running to represent the largest car-manufacturing state in the country. A spokeswoman for McMorrow told CNN that “Mallory started her career as a car designer and doesn’t want to ban cars. She’s been repeatedly endorsed by auto unions.”

McMorrow’s communications director, Hannah Lindow, said that her state Senate campaign team deleted her tweets prior to 2020, arguing that it’s “pretty standard for candidates.” Lindow also defended the posts, saying they “are normal tweets by a normal person.”

McMorrow was blasted by her Democrat opponents following the CNN report. Democratic Senate candidate and current Rep. Haley Stevens shared the report on McMorrow’s past comments, writing, “So what actually ticks me off? Someone who wants that job—representing Michiganders—talking crap about us and our state.”

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, another Michigan Democratic Senate candidate, wrote on Wednesday, “Born in Michigan, hallelujah. Raised in Michigan, hallelujah. Believe cars should exist, hallelujah.”

The Democratic Senate primary in Michigan remains a close contest, with McMorrow, Stevens, and El-Sayed running neck-and-neck, according to the latest polls. Each of the top three Democratic candidates in the race has faced controversies since launching their Senate campaigns.

In December, a video posted by Townhall showed McMorrow suggesting that she would throw beer in the faces of conservative Supreme Court justices if she saw them in public.

El-Sayed has also faced scrutiny during the heated 2026 campaign after he deleted numerous social media posts, including some in which he called to “defund the police” and referred to police as “standing armies.” El-Sayed has also campaigned with Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, who once said that “America deserved 9/11.”

Stevens, meanwhile, was rebuked by Democratic leadership after she filed articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a move some of her Democratic colleagues viewed as a political stunt.

The winner of the Democratic primary, which will be held on August 4, will likely face Republican Mike Rogers, who has all but secured the GOP nomination. Michigan has not elected a Republican senator since 1994.