McMorrow Deletes 6,000 Pre-2020 X Posts

Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow, a leading Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Gary Peters, deleted approximately 6,000 posts from her X account, including all content prior to 2020. The action followed scrutiny of her social media history that began last year.

An examination of the now-deleted tweets revealed comments critical of Michigan weather, such as an April 2014 post stating, "Aaaand its snowing. Screw you, Michigan. NYCtoLA." McMorrow also expressed longing for California, writing on January 5, 2017, "There are days like these that make me miss California even more," the day before Congress certified Donald Trump's presidential election victory. In a December 2016 post, she described a dream in which the U.S. "amicably broke off into The Ring coasts CanMex parts MichTex and Middle America."

Other posts included advocacy for a future without personal car ownership, with one stating, "Pushing for a future where we dont own cars. Cars are dead." McMorrow linked Trump and his supporters to Nazi Germany in January 2017, posting a Dr. Seuss cartoon from 1941 with the caption, "Dr. Seuss, 1941. Weve been here before, America....