A US Senate candidate in Michigan is under fire for past social media posts where she not only looked down on “Middle America” but also proclaimed her love for California — so much so that she even voted in California elections while supposedly in Michigan.
Democrat Mallory McMorrow deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites,” after The New York Post first reported on them last year.
McMurrow wrote in her 2025 autobiography that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014. But there are tweets where she said she was a California resident and voter as late as July 2016.
Born in New Jersey, the candidate had lived in the Golden State to work various jobs, according to her LinkedIn. She was a designer for toy company Mattel in El Segundo in 2012, and she was later back in the state after a stint in New York as a director of creative strategy for a production studio in Venice, California, until 2015.
Her first Michigan-based job listed on her LinkedIn began in July 2017.
McMurrow’s campaign explained the discrepancy to news outlets, saying her move was a “process” completed by mid-2016 and that she remained registered in California until then.
Analysis of the deleted posts indicated that she voted in California’s June 2016 Democratic primary and November 2014 election. Public records showed she registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016.
In her tweets, she reminisced often about the West Coast.
“There are days like these that make me miss California even more,” McMorrow groused on Jan. 5, 2017, the day before Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was certified by Congress.
She seemed to agree with the sentiment that white working-class voters in the Midwest were sheltered and needed to understand diverse communities on the coasts more, not the other way around.
McMorrow is up against Representative Haley Stevens and former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed in a tight primary race of national interest.
The Michigan Republican Party argued McMorrow’s posts are in line with where the Democratic Party is as a whole.
“Mallory McMorrow just revealed her deep disdain for Middle America, which is exactly in line with where the Democrat Party has been trending for decades,” said Ted Goodman, spokesman for the Michigan GOP.
