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May 5, 2026 ~ Chris Renwick and Lloyd Jackson talk with Kaitlyn Buss, assistant editorial page editor with Detroit News. They discuss deleted tweets from State Senator Mallory McMorrow, a candidate for U.S. Senate.
MICHIGAN ~ The contentious Democrat Senate primary in Michigan has pointed its spotlight towards State Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s social media history after she deleted old posts that criticized the Midwest and praised California.
The Senate candidate called the controversy “silly” in a Saturday coffee hour in Detroit, according to an article from the Detroit News. She elaborated further the next day to CNN’s Manu Raju on “Inside Politics Sunday,” saying that “I started my career as a car designer, and then I worked in a very different career and wasn’t thinking about it. I tweeted normal things like a normal person, and people are desperate for authenticity, so that is what we need in November.”
Last week, CNN discovered that McMorrow deleted about 6,000 older social media posts, which suggests she missed living in California and compared President Donald Trump’s actions to those in Nazi Germany.
The Democratic primary has been highly competitive, with McMorrow locked in a close race with U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and former Wayne County Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services Director Abdul El-Sayed.
