McMorrow Campaign Tried to Keep Voters From Seeing Underwhelming Poll Numbers
- June 18, 2026
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McMorrow's polling problem becomes a transparency problem after new allegations surface
McMorrow's polling problem becomes a transparency problem after new allegations surface
Mallory McMorrow’s embattled US Senate campaign has faced another setback after new allegations surfaced that she attempted to bury an unfavorable poll.
Steve Mitchell conducted the poll on behalf of Michigan Information and Research Service, a news outlet covering the state capitol in Lansing.
The primary poll showed McMorrow receiving only 6 percent while Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens received 33 percent support, and progressive Abdul El-Sayed received 42 percent.
While the poll is a bad enough sign for McMorrow, it has drawn additional negative attention to her campaign after a news editor with MIRS revealed that he killed the poll after being pressured by the McMorrow campaign.
“I told Steve that the campaign did raise issues with the poll, and that they were pressuring me to not run the poll,” Melinn said in an interview. He added that after soliciting the advice of other pollsters, he “didn’t run it because I didn’t feel comfortable with it.”
McMorrow’s campaign started out promising as she attempted to thread the needle between progressive candidate El-Sayed and establishment favorite Haley Stevens, but has lost momentum due to a series of missteps.
Perhaps most damaging to her campaign was a report detailing over 6,000 social media posts she deleted that disparaged the state of Michigan and rural voters.
In one tweet, she agreed with another X user that rural Americans could learn from coastal elites.
‘I‘m from the rural Midwest. All this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards’, the X post read.
‘I’m from rural New Jersey. This ranks 100%.’, McMorrow posted in response.
Michigan’s primaries are just over six weeks away, where both parties will nominate candidates for key races such as the vacant US Senate seat and the Governor.
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