A Democrat running for US Senate in Michigan spent years lecturing voters about election integrity.
Then reporters found the tweet she deleted – the one where she did exactly what she called illegal.
And that's just the beginning of what those 6,000 erased posts revealed about Mallory McMorrow.
The Rule She Made for Everyone but Herself
McMorrow is one of three Democrats fighting for Michigan's open Senate seat – the one being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters and targeted by Republican Mike Rogers in what Cook Political Report calls a pure toss-up.
She's positioned herself as a champion of Michigan families. Her 2025 autobiography says she "relocated permanently" to Michigan in 2014.
Her deleted social media archive said otherwise.
Reporters using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine recovered posts showing McMorrow calling herself a California resident as late as July 2016, voting in California's June 2016 Democratic primary, and identifying herself as a constituent of California Rep. Ted Lieu – all while her autobiography had her planted in Michigan two years earlier.
Public records show she didn't register to vote in Michigan until August 2016.
Under California law, only state residents are eligible to vote, with residency defined as an established domicile with intent to remain.
Her campaign's explanation: the move was "a process" completed by mid-2016.
That answer might land better if McMorrow hadn't already ruled on this exact situation herself.
In a since-deleted 2024 post, she confronted a voter who had relocated to California but stayed registered in their previous state. Her verdict was swift.
"So you moved for work and live in California but are registered somewhere you no longer live?" McMorrow wrote. "That's illegal."
She deleted that one too.
What She Was Hoping Michigan Would Never Read
McMorrow's campaign called the mass deletion "pretty standard for candidates."
The content was not standard.
In December 2016, McMorrow posted a fantasy about America fracturing into two nations – "The Ring" of coastal elites and Canada on one side, "Middle America" on the other, with Barack Obama installed as prime minister of her preferred half.
In November 2016, she wrote that she wished she had never left California.
In January 2017 – already living full-time in Michigan – she wrote there were days that made her "miss California even more."
She also scrubbed posts comparing Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis.
The McMorrow campaign defended the weather complaints as tweets from "a normal person." Complaining about Michigan winters is practically a residency requirement.
Fantasizing about Middle America breaking off from the country while running to represent it in the U.S. Senate is a different matter entirely.
Rogers' campaign didn't need long to respond. "If Mallory is that homesick for California, she's better off to go home and run for office there," a spokesperson said.
Michigan Republican Party spokesman Ted Goodman added: "McMorrow just revealed her deep disdain for Middle America."
Democrats Keep Proving the Point
McMorrow didn't just vote in a state she may not have legally resided in.
She went on record calling that exact behavior illegal – then deleted both the votes and the lecture.
Michigan's Senate primary hits August 4. According to Emerson College polling, McMorrow and progressive rival Abdul El-Sayed are deadlocked at 24% among likely Democratic primary voters, with Rep. Haley Stevens at 18%.
You can delete 6,000 tweets overnight. You can't delete what they proved about your character.
Michigan voters now know what Mallory McMorrow really thought of them before she decided she wanted their votes – and they get to decide what to do with that.
Sources:
- CNN KFile, "Make Me Miss California: In Deleted Tweets, Senate Candidate Mallory McMorrow Disparaged Middle America," CNN, April 29, 2026.
- Amy Furr, "Report: Democrat U.S. Senate Candidate Mallory McMorrow Voted in California After Relocating to Michigan," Breitbart, May 1, 2026.
- "McMorrow Voted in California After Moving to Michigan Permanently," Newsweek, April 30, 2026.
- "Michigan Dem Senate Hopeful Ripped for Trashing Middle America in Social Media Posts," Fox News, April 30, 2026.
- "Michigan 2026 Poll: Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow Tied for Lead in Democratic Senate Primary," Emerson College Polling, April 2026.
