Mallory McMorrow deleted thousands of old tweets as she tries to stay focused on Michigan’s crowded Senate primary, where every line of her past is now being read against the race ahead. Her account had more than 20,000 tweets in 2022 and about 13,900 after the deletions reported in 2025.
Archived posts suggested McMorrow described herself as a California resident as late as July 2016, even though she wrote in her 2025 memoir that she moved permanently to Michigan in 2014. Public records showed Michigan voter registration in August 2016, while records also noted ties to California Congressman Ted Lieu and voting in Los Angeles in 2014.
The timing matters because Michigan’s Senate primaries remained a major battle for control of the Senate in 2026, and McMorrow is one of the leading Democratic contenders alongside Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed. Her deleted material was reported to include remarks about Middle America and nostalgia for California, the kind of old material that can quickly reshape a campaign’s message if it surfaces at the wrong moment.
McMorrow’s team said all of her tweets up to 2020 were deleted as “a fairly standard practice for candidates,” and spokesperson Hannah Lindow said the move from California to Michigan was a “process” that had not concluded by mid-2016. Lindow said McMorrow remained registered in California during that period and voted by mail in June 2016.
That account leaves one part of the record intact: McMorrow herself was still posting about California in June 2016, when she mentioned voting there and urged others to register. By December that year, she was writing about a dream in which the United States peacefully split into The Ring and Central America, with Obama as prime minister and everyone getting $1,000 and six months to choose a side. From 2017 to 2020, she worked to build a more moderate image, focusing on positions that helped make her one of Michigan’s leading Democratic Senate candidates. The question now is not whether the old posts existed, but whether the campaign’s explanation is enough to stop them from defining the race.
