Politicians need a wake up call. And it can’t come soon enough.
Because this out of touch Democrat insulted average Americans with this disgusting sentence.
DELETE, DELETE, DELETE — BUT THE RECORD REMAINS
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow has spent months positioning herself as the pragmatic, authentic alternative in the state’s crowded Democratic Senate primary — a relatable Michigander who left California behind and planted roots in the Great Lakes State. That narrative hit a wall this week when CNN’s KFile revealed she had quietly scrubbed roughly 6,000 social media posts, including a string of messages in the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election that paint a strikingly different picture of how she views the voters she now courts.
The posts, recovered from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, showed McMorrow disparaging Michigan and Middle America, praising a thread that accused rural Americans of isolating themselves from the rest of the country, and longing for the California she left behind. In January 2017, responding to a user who suggested California should have its own diplomatic corps to avoid being dragged down by what the user called “morons from the other side of the country,” McMorrow replied: “There are days like these that make me miss California even more.”
The contrast with her 2017 campaign launch couldn’t be sharper. “Choosing to put roots down right here in Michigan is the best decision I’ve ever made,” she wrote at the time. Whether she meant it, or was simply crafting her political brand for a new audience, is exactly the question now hanging over her candidacy.
SHE DOUBLED DOWN — AND THAT’S THE STORY
Politicians caught in a contradiction usually have two options: apologize and walk it back, or stand firm and hope the story dies. McMorrow chose a third path that may prove most damaging — she went on CNN’s Inside Politics Sunday and defended the tweets with an air of entitled self-confidence that is unlikely to play well in a state Trump carried twice.
When anchor Manu Raju asked directly, “Do you stand by that sentiment that rural parts of America can learn from coastal elites?” McMorrow replied: “I think we all need to understand each other better. Trump has succeeded in weaponizing us against each other, convincing us that we are each other’s enemies. I’ve lived all over the country. I’ve met a lot of different people, and I stand by that.”
She then reached for the deflection Democrats always reach for: blame Trump. “There is a level of authenticity and just grappling in the wake of the 2016 election, of how somebody like Donald Trump could have been elected,” she said. Then the self-exculpation: “Was it the most eloquent tweet I’ve ever tweeted? No, I’ve tweeted thousands of times.”
The original post McMorrow retweeted and endorsed read, “All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.” The user whose thread she enthusiastically endorsed went on to write that “many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas.” McMorrow added her own gloss: “This thread. I’m from rural New Jersey, this rings 100% true. Empathy should go both ways, but Trump’s base fears what they’ve never seen.”
Even Rep. Haley Stevens, a fellow Democrat in the race, broke ranks. She called McMorrow’s posts “a little tacky” and “very out of touch with what our state is all about,” warning they could be a serious liability in the general election.
A RESIDENCY PROBLEM, A CONSISTENCY PROBLEM, AND A MICHIGAN PROBLEM
The deleted tweets aren’t the only awkward detail in McMorrow’s story. Her 2025 autobiography states she “permanently relocated” to Michigan from California in 2014 — yet the KFile review surfaced posts as late as July 2016 in which she described herself as a California resident, urged California voters to register for the state’s June 2016 Democratic primary, and indicated she voted there. When pressed, she said moving “takes time” and that “like a lot of millennials,” she wasn’t fully settled until she updated her registration later in 2016. Reviewers are free to assess how that squares with claiming she permanently relocated two years earlier.
The rest of the deleted archive is equally revealing: posts praising a white privilege seminar at Notre Dame, comparisons of Trump and his supporters to N*zi Germany, support for a future “where we don’t own cars,” and a quip that a border wall would cut off the supply of avocados. The collection reflects the worldview of a certain kind of progressive who is entirely comfortable in coastal blue America — and whose instinct, when confronted with rural or working-class conservatism, is not empathy but condescension dressed up as enlightenment.
Michigan’s Senate race is one of the most important in the country. Democrats hold only two Senate seats in states Trump won in 2024 — Michigan and Georgia — and both are up in 2026. For McMorrow to win the general election, she would need to persuade at least some of the rural and small-town Michiganders she once suggested needed tutoring from coastal elites. Based on her conduct this week, she appears to have not yet grasped why that might be a problem.
