McMorrow Campaign in Disarray Due to Deleted Tweets
- May 5, 2026
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Dem Senate candidate under fire for tweets disparaging Michigan, rural voters
Democratic Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow’s campaign has unraveled in recent weeks as thousands of deleted tweets she made disparaging Michiganders and rural voters were unearthed.
The current State Senate Majority Leader is running in a competitive Democratic primary against progressive Abdul El-Sayed and Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
In addition to her controversial tweets, it was revealed that McMorrow voted in California elections after moving to Michigan, drawing further criticism that she is out of touch with the state’s voters.
The candidate defended her decision to vote in California elections by saying that “moving takes time”.
“We decided to move to Michigan in 2014,” McMorrow said. “Like a lot of millennials, moving takes time. It was a two-year process to finally settle in Michigan.”
In one now-deleted tweet, McMorrow disparaged rural Americans, retweeting a jab that they have “isolated themselves from the rest of the country”.
“Many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas”, the tweet said.
She quote-tweeted that post, writing, “I’m from rural New Jersey, this rings 100%. Empathy should go both ways, but Trump’s base fears what they’ve never seen.”
She then doubled down on the tweet during a recent CNN interview.
McMorrow’s primary opponents have not shied away from taking advantage of the debacle to attack her, with Congresswoman Stevens calling the deleted tweets “tacky”.
“I thought it was a little tacky, and I think that it dovetails from things that we saw Mallory McMorrow say last year,” Stevens said. “It strikes me as very out of touch with what our state is all about.”
McMorrow and Abdul El-Sayed are currently polling neck and neck in the primary, with both receiving 24% support according to an Emerson poll conducted in April, while Stevens is polling at 13%.
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