Look, I have my own problems with Mallory McMorrow’s campaign for U.S. Senate, but her deleting some old tweets, as a new CNN article reports, is not one of them.
The article seems to suggest that McMorrow — a native of New Jersey who arrived to Michigan via Los Angeles and has served as a state senator here since 2019 — is somehow an insufficient Michigander because she complained about our terrible weather and fantasized about a future without automobiles.
To that, I say: sounds like she’s one of us.
Whom among us hasn’t lamented Michigan’s long, cold, and grey season? In one now-deleted tweet, McMorrow wrote, “Yesterday it was nearly 50 and now the sky is just shitting ice on everything. I don’t like you, Michigan.” (When asked for comment, her campaign defended the deleted tweets, telling CNN, “The Michigan sky does in fact sometimes shit ice. She stands by that.”)
In another tweet, McMorrow wrote, “Pushing for [a] future where we don’t own cars… Cars are dead.” Every Michigander knows this place can feel like it prioritizes these infernal machines over human life. Owning a car is a particular pain in the ass in the Motor City, with among the highest auto insurance rates in the nation and a public transportation system that leaves much to be desired. In response, the McMorrow campaign noted that her educational background is in automotive design (she she started her career as a car designer and during her junior year at Notre Dame, she won a public design contest for the Mazda3; she later worked at Mattel on Hot Wheels toys) and that she has earned endorsements from autoworker unions. McMorrow was also notably behind legislation in Michigan that brought back the state’s retro license plates to help raise funds to “fix the damn roads.”
Other apparently controversial deleted tweets saw McMorrow comparing President Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler and other authoritarian movements. Well… is Trump a fascist? Inquiring minds want to know! (I don’t think Trump is beating the allegations.)
Perhaps the only morsel worth chewing in an otherwise nothingburger of a piece: some lingering questions about exactly when McMorrow moved to Michigan. According to the deleted tweets, McMorrow, a Democrat, wrote in her 2025 autobiography that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014. However, deleted tweets referenced McMorrow voting in California in 2014 and 2016.
The McMorrow campaign defended her move to Michigan as a “a process” that started in 2014 and was not complete until mid-2016, though she remained registered to vote in California and voted absentee for the state’s June 2016 election. However, according to CNN, “Under California law, only state residents are eligible to vote in California elections, with residency defined as a voter’s established domicile and intent to remain.”
In a deleted tweet, McMorrow encouraged Californians to register to vote and shared a New York magazine article about the competitive June 7 Democratic presidential primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The AP wound up declaring Clinton the presumptive nominee the night before the primary — to the consternation of Sanders supporters, who felt the timing was intended to suppress the vote in an important race. (Clinton wound up winning California that year, though Sanders managed to win it in the 2020 primary.) In another deleted tweet, McMorrow told a voter who moved to California but still voted in Michigan, “So you moved for work and live in California but are registered somewhere you no longer live?…that’s illegal.”
McMorrow registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016, according to public records.
Honestly, everyone should delete their old tweets. Or, better yet, never tweet.
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