In a normal midterm cycle, Mallory McMorrow might have shamed the entire Democrat Party and confirmed their status as a clique of coastal elites that sneer at Middle America. And McMorrow certainly does all of that. Fortunately for her, the Graham Platner Era – in which Democrats hug actual Nazis – makes her candidacy for the US Senate in Michigan more of a nostalgia tour.
Well, nostalgia in a sneering, voter-fraud sort of way, I suppose.
McMorrow moved to Michigan in 2014, which might normally be an issue for a candidate running for statewide office. It should be an even bigger issue because McMorrow voted in the 2016 primary … in California. CNN’s Manu Raju asked McMorrow to explain that, and she claimed that it took her two years to move, just like everyone else (via Twitchy):
RAJU: I want to dig a little bit deeper here, because the “KFILE” report showed that you wrote in your auto — 2025 autobiography that you, quote, “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014. But there are social media posts of yours where you describe yourself as a California resident in 2016. And the reason why this is an issue is because you posted, you voted in June 2016, Democratic primary in California. And I don’t need to tell you, but of course, you’re required to vote in a state you’re a resident of. So why would you be voting in California two years after moving to Michigan?
MCMORROW: So we decided to move to Michigan in 2014. I was still working in southern California. My then-boyfriend, now husband, was working in Michigan. Like a lot of millennials, moving takes time. It was a two-year process to finally settle in Michigan. And I registered to vote in Michigan in August of 2016 and voted in the general election in November that year.
RAJU: But you wrote you relocated permanently in 2014, and you also posted an Instagram post that you had moved out of California, and that was before the June 16th primary in that state. Should you have voted in the 2016 primary in California?
MCMORROW: We still had our place out in southern California. And as I mentioned, we had multiple jobs. Moving is ugly. I wish we could have just upped and moved in one fell swoop, but that’s not the case just like it is for a lot of people.
Raju noted that McMorrow employs a different standard for herself when it comes to voter fraud than she applies to others:
RAJU: Because you had criticized a Twitter user in 2020 for voting in Michigan after moving to California. You called it illegal then.
MCMORROW: Yes, absolutely. If you are doing that intentionally after moving permanently to a place that is illegal. But in our case, it was a two-year process. And when I was finally a permanent resident in Michigan, that is where I registered and that is where I voted.
However, that’s just the appetizer from this appearance on Inside Politics. It turns out that McMorrow never really left California in her heart, because she views everyone else as, well,”morons.” After starting off the interview defending herself as a candidate of “authenticity” for Michiganders, Raju notes that McMorrow has deleted 6,000 tweets after launching her campaign for the US Senate nomination, including one that instructed voters in Middle America to start learning from the coastal elites:
Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow defends her tweet calling middle Americans “backwards.”
CNN: “Do you stand by that sentiment that rural parts of America can learn from coastal elites?”
MCMORROW: “I stand by that.”
That’s the quiet part out loud. pic.twitter.com/objg7VHcSy
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 3, 2026
RAJU: Ok, so there were tweets of words where you seem to take a jab at rural America. In 2016, a user posted, quote, “I’m from the rural Midwest. All this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.” You wrote in response to that user this thread. “I’m from rural New Jersey. This ranks 100 percent.” So do you stand by that sentiment that rural parts of America can learn from coastal elites?
MCMORROW: I think we all need to understand each other better. Trump has succeeded in weaponizing us against each other, convincing us that we are each other’s enemies. I’ve lived all over the country. I’ve met a lot of different people, and I stand by that. Was it the most eloquent tweet I’ve ever tweeted? No, I’ve tweeted thousands of times.
Ah yes, it’s Trump that made her say it! Perhaps McMorrow should take a look at the last statewide election in Michigan and see how Trump did. Actually, she could take a look at the 2016 election too, but she’d better check the Michigan results rather than those from California.
This is precisely the kind of elite rules-for-thee-but-not-for-me entitlement that drove voters by the millions to support Trump. What makes this more than just amusing is that McMorrow isn’t even the worst candidate in the Democrat primary. Abdul el-Sayed is running on the hard-Left, pro-Hamas agenda of the progressive elites, hoping to leverage Dearbornistan into a statewide win for the nomination. Mike Rogers would likely demolish el-Sayed, but Hayley Stevens or McMorrow might look moderate in comparison. An Emerson poll two weeks ago showed Stevens falling off the pace in the Democrat primary, with McMorrow and el-Sayed tied at 24%, with 36% undecided.
Will Michigan Democrats choose the Hamasnik or the sneering Californian? Rogers has to feel fortunate to have his opposition as neatly lined up for the general election.
Correction: The headline originally used “nominee,” but the primary has not yet been held, obviously. I’ve corrected it.
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