Michigan Senate hopeful Mallory McMorrow stood by her since-deleted tweets digging at rural America, whom the Democrat suggested needs to learn from coastal elites.
McMorrow’s past tweets disparaging rural America were first reported by The Post last year but have since gained renewed scrutiny due to a recent CNN report on them.
“I think we all need to understand each other better,” McMorrow told CNN’s “Inside Politics” Sunday. “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.”
Shortly after the 2016 election, McMorrow concurred with a tweet that said: “All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.”
“It is much of white working class America that needs to reach outside its comfort zone and meet people not like them,” then-reporter Patrick Thornton argued in the X thread.
“Many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas.”
She quote-tweeted that post, writing, “I’m from rural New Jersey, this rings 100%. Empathy should go both ways, but Trump’s base fears what they’ve never seen.”
During her wide-ranging interview with CNN, McMorrow said that she sees parallels between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration
“Yeah, I do,” she told CNN. “It is deeply concerning that we’ve seen an authoritarian slide and, as we’ve talked about earlier, dividing people against each other.”
“I don’t think a lot of people would argue [with the notion] that there are shades of authoritarianism here that we need to be deeply concerned about.”
McMorrow, a Michigan state senator, has been seen as a rising star within progressive circles and is running in a very competitive Democratic primary to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.)
Polls show a close three-way race on the Democratic side, with lefty physician Abdul El-Sayed leading the pack with 23% support, followed by McMorrow at 20.7% and moderate Rep. Haley Stevens at 20.3%, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
The primary is slated for Aug. 4.
Republican Mike Rogers is widely expected to lock down the nod on the GOP side. Rogers narrowly lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) in 2024 by 0.34 percentage points and has President Trump’s backing.
