Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow appeared on CNN’s “Inside Politics” this Sunday to address a resurfaced 2016 social media post in which she criticized “Middle America.”
The controversy follows an April 2025 report by the New York Post revealing that McMorrow deleted roughly 6,000 posts from her X account, including several tagged #NYCtoLA, shortly after her past comments drew scrutiny.
During the interview, host Manu Raju questioned the Senator on whether she still stands by the deleted content. The issue has become a flashpoint in her primary race against Democratic U.S. Representative Haley Stevens, who suggested the posts could become a liability in a general election.
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“I think we all need to understand each other better,” McMorrow told Raju. She attributed the country’s division to Donald Trump, stating he “succeeded in weaponizing us against each other.”
While acknowledging the 2016 post might not have been her “most eloquent tweet,” she maintained that her perspective was shaped by living across the country.
McMorrow rose to the national stage in 2022 after a viral floor speech in the Michigan Senate. In that address, she identified herself as a “straight, white, Christian, married suburban mom” while pushing back against Republican-led efforts to restrict gender-affirming care for minors and critical race theory in schools.
Her performance at the time earned high marks from veteran strategist James Carville and solidified her status as a rising star in the Democratic Party.
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However, the recent discovery of the deleted archives has shifted the conversation toward her past views of the Midwest.
CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted that the purge included virtually everything McMorrow posted prior to 2020. This digital cleanup comes at a critical time; an early April poll from Emerson College showed McMorrow in a dead heat with former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed.
“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,” McMorrow added during the Sunday broadcast, emphasizing that she does not view fellow citizens as enemies despite the tone of her previous posts.
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