2026-04-29T09:00:51.390Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
随着民主党人在密歇根州联邦参议院选举中为一场激烈的初选做准备，该党顶级竞争者之一的马洛里·麦克莫罗已悄悄删除了数千条旧推文，其中包括她嘲讽中西部农村、哀叹自己曾离开加州，以及声称在她声称永久搬到密歇根州后仍在加州投票的内容。
密歇根州州议员、民主党后起之秀麦克莫罗在其2025年的自传中写道，她于2014年“永久搬迁”至密歇根州。
但CNN的“K文件”栏目对互联网档案馆的“时光机”项目进行审核后发现，一系列现已删除的社交媒体帖子显示，截至2016年7月，麦克莫罗仍自称是加州居民。
麦克莫罗多次提及自己参与了2016年6月加州民主党初选投票，并敦促选民进行登记。在其他已删除的帖子中，麦克莫罗还在2016年7月称自己是加州民主党众议员泰德·刘的选民，并提到她2014年11月在洛杉矶地区进行了现场投票，当时她在那里居住。
公开记录显示，她于2016年8月在密歇根州完成了选民登记。
除了麦克莫罗的投票记录引发的质疑外，这些被删除的推文也为了解她的政治演变提供了视角。在大约6000条被删除的帖子中，包含了一系列进步主义观点，从畅想无车未来，到支持“黑人的命也是命”运动，再到将唐纳德·特朗普总统及其支持者比作纳粹。
麦克莫罗还删除了关于2016年特朗普当选后美国沿海地区脱离美国中部的言论。
“我做了一个梦，美国和平地分裂成‘环带地区’（沿海地区+加拿大+墨西哥+密歇根/得克萨斯部分地区）和美国中部，”她在2016年12月写道。“哦对了，‘环带地区’提名奥巴马为总理，还给每个人发了1000美元，并有六个月时间来选择立场。”
她的竞选团队拒绝澄清这条帖子是指真实的梦境还是她所期待的假设情况。
近年来，麦克莫罗表达了更为温和的观点，并将自己定位为竞争激烈的民主党参议院初选中的务实派。这场初选有望成为今年最具竞争力的选举之一。麦克莫罗与美国众议员黑利·史蒂文斯和前底特律公共卫生官员阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德势均力敌。
麦克莫罗的发言人汉娜·林多说，竞选团队删除了她2020年之前的所有推文，并表示这“对候选人来说相当标准”。她表示，麦克莫罗从加州搬到密歇根州是一个“过程”，直到2016年中期才完成，在此期间她仍在加州保留选民登记，并在2016年6月进行了缺席投票。
林多说，麦克莫罗将2014年视为这次搬迁的开始。
“这些都是普通人的正常推文，”麦克莫罗的通讯总监林多说道。“作为密歇根州参议院多数党党鞭，马洛里在过去八年里一直在努力改善人们的生活：提高工资、普及学前教育、不让学校里的孩子挨饿、制定全面的枪支暴力预防法律等等。她也曾在推特上分享过这些内容。”
麦克莫罗的竞选团队拒绝透露她支持哪些立场、反对哪些立场，仅表示她为一条抱怨密歇根州天气的言论感到自豪。
密歇根州的参议院选举是决定参议院控制权的全国最重要选举之一。2026年，民主党在特朗普2024年获胜的州仅保有两个参议院席位，另一个是佐治亚州。
随着民主党人对今年中期选举中夺回参议院多数席位的前景愈发乐观，定于8月举行的密歇根州初选有望成为关键选举。
麦克莫罗并非该选举中唯一删除社交媒体帖子的民主党人。去年，CNN曾报道埃尔赛义德悄悄删除了数千条旧社交媒体帖子，其中包括12条宣扬“ defund the police（‘撤资警察’）”运动、称警察为“常备军”，并敦促各城市将执法资金转向社会服务的推文。
互联网档案馆“时光机”项目保存的存档快照显示，2022年，麦克莫罗的X账户拥有超过2万条推文。如今，该账户仅显示1.39万条推文。
这些被删除的帖子似乎是在2025年《纽约邮报》首次报道麦克莫罗在2016年特朗普当选后对密歇根州和“美国中部”的贬低言论后被移除的，该报道中引用的多条帖子现已无法在网上获取，其中包括一条赞扬一篇帖子的推文，该帖子认为农村美国人——而非沿海精英——需要更好地了解美国其他地区。
2017年1月的一条推文中，一名用户写道，“加州应该拥有自己的外交官”，以“确保我们不会因为国家另一端的白痴而被核打击”，麦克莫罗回应道：“有时真的会让我更加怀念加州。”
2017年宣布参选州参议员时，麦克莫罗的语气截然不同。
“选择在密歇根州扎根是我做过的最好的决定，”她当时在竞选网站上写道。
她被删除的帖子涵盖了广泛的话题。
其中一些帖子显示麦克莫罗轻松地支持无车未来；提及她的母校圣母大学举办的“白人特权”研讨会；并表示南部边境墙会限制牛油果进入美国。
“畅想一个我们不需要拥有汽车的未来……汽车时代已经结束了，”她在一个话题下开玩笑道。“那墨西哥的牛油果怎么办？如果那堵墙建起来了，牛油果就再见了，”她在另一条帖子中说道。“我特别为我的母校#圣母大学 开设白人特权研讨会感到骄傲，”一条已被删除的2014年帖子写道。
“马洛里的职业生涯始于汽车设计师，她并不想禁止汽车。她多次得到汽车工会的支持，”一名发言人告诉CNN。
其中一些被删除的帖子在这个特朗普曾两次获胜、汽车制造业和农村社区是政治格局核心的州，可能会在政治上引发敏感反应。
麦克莫罗的多条已删除帖子还将特朗普执政下的美国与纳粹德国相比较。
2017年1月，特朗普就职仅一周多，麦克莫罗写道：“苏斯博士，1941年。我们以前来过这里，美国。#美国优先 #禁止穆斯林入境禁令”，并链接到一篇关于纳粹德国的苏斯博士漫画。当另一名用户在2017年7月写道，他们“完全不相信”能改变特朗普支持者的想法时，麦克莫罗回应道：“同意。但我们如何反击？希特勒有支持者。斯大林有支持者。普京有支持者。没人会改变主意。”
2020年10月的另一条帖子中，麦克莫罗分享了一段视频，视频中一名大屠杀幸存者警告纳粹德国与“特朗普及其威权野心”之间的相似之处。麦克莫罗补充道：“请观看这位亲爱的朋友与91岁的大屠杀幸存者沃尔特共同制作的完整4分钟迷你纪录片，他警告了自己所看到的纳粹德国崛起与当今美国之间的相似之处。”
2016年2月的另一条推文，就在最高法院大法官安东宁·斯卡利亚去世后不久，写道：“斯卡利亚去世后，关于人生的思考：永远不要成为那种人们会为你的死亡欢呼的人。”
其他帖子则对密歇根州态度更为矛盾。
2016年11月的一条已删除推文中，在回应一名用户关于底特律一家餐厅多样性的评论时，麦克莫罗写道，特朗普当选胜利后，她的“第一反应之一”是“真希望我从未离开过加州”，随后补充道，在底特律待了一周后，她想在那里买房。
2016年3月的另一条帖子中，就在她搬到该州后不久，她抱怨天气，写道：“昨天还快到50华氏度了，现在天空却在往所有东西上砸冰。我不喜欢你，密歇根。”
麦克莫罗的竞选团队为她的言论辩护，告诉CNN：“密歇根的天空确实有时会砸冰。她对此言论感到自豪。”
尽管麦克莫罗的书中将她的搬迁时间标为2014年，但在2015年的一次采访中，麦克莫罗表示她是在2015年搬的家。从个人账号转为竞选账号的Instagram帖子显示，她在2016年3月退租了洛杉矶地区的公寓。
目前尚不清楚她在密歇根州建立居住权后为何仍能在加州投票，但她在同年4月分享了《纽约杂志》的一篇报道，该报道称加州民主党初选几十年来首次变得至关重要。她后来还分享了已故演员、《恋爱时代》明星詹姆斯·范德比克的一张哭泣表情包，哀叹民主党初选在加州投票前就已尘埃落定。
根据加州法律，只有州居民才有资格在加州选举中投票，居住权的定义为选民已确立的住所和居住意图。
2024年，麦克莫罗斥责了一名在与一名搬到加州但仍在密歇根州投票的选民争执时，声称自己在不再居住的州投票的推特用户：“所以你为了工作搬家，住在加州，但却在你不再居住的地方登记投票？……这是违法的。”
‘Make me miss California’: In deleted tweets, Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow disparaged Middle America
2026-04-29T09:00:51.390Z / CNN
As Democrats brace for a bruising primary in Michigan’s US Senate race, Mallory McMorrow, one of the party’s top contenders, has quietly deleted thousands of old tweets — including posts in which she took jabs at the rural Midwest, lamented ever leaving California, and said she continued to vote there after she said she’d moved permanently to Michigan.
McMorrow, a Michigan state lawmaker and rising star in the Democratic Party, wrote in her 2025 autobiography that she “relocated permanently” to Michigan in 2014.
Yet a CNN KFile review of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine reveals a series of now-deleted social media posts of McMorrow describing herself as a California resident as late as July 2016.
McMorrow repeatedly referenced voting in California’s June 2016 Democratic primary and urged voters to register for it. In other now-deleted posts, McMorrow also described herself in July 2016 as a constituent of California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu and referenced voting in person in November 2014 in the Los Angeles area, where she was a resident at the time.
Public records show she registered to vote in Michigan in August 2016.
On top of questions about McMorrow’s voting record, the deleted tweets offer a window into her political evolution. Among the roughly 6,000 deleted posts are those that reflect a range of progressive views, from contemplating a future without cars, to supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, to comparing President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis.
McMorrow also deleted comments about the US coasts breaking off from Middle America following the 2016 election of Trump.
“I had a dream that the U.S. amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts + Can + Mex + parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,” she wrote in December 2016. “Oh and The Ring nominated Obama as Prime Minister and everyone was given $1,000 and six months to pick a side.”
Her campaign declined to clarify whether the post referred to a literal dream or a hypothetical situation she hoped for.
In recent years, McMorrow has espoused more moderate views and has branded herself as the pragmatist in a crowded Democratic Senate primary that is shaping up to be among the more competitive races this year. McMorrow is locked in a dead heat against US Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, a former Detroit public health official.
A spokesperson for McMorrow, Hannah Lindow, said the campaign deleted all her tweets prior to 2020, describing it as “pretty standard for candidates.” She said that McMorrow’s move from California to Michigan “was a process” that was not complete until mid-2016, that she remained registered to vote in California during that time, and that she voted absentee in June 2016.
Lindow said McMorrow considers 2014 the start of that move.
“These are normal tweets by a normal person,” said Lindow, McMorrow’s communications director. “As Michigan’s Senate majority whip, Mallory has spent the past eight years fighting and delivering to make people’s lives better: higher wages, universal pre-K, no kid going hungry in schools, comprehensive gun violence prevention laws, and more. And she’s tweeted about that too.”
McMorrow’s campaign declined to say which positions she did and did not stand by, other than to say she stood by a comment lamenting the Michigan weather.
Michigan’s Senate race is one of the most important in the country in determining control of the chamber. It is one of only two seats in 2026 held by Democrats in states Trump won in 2024, the other being Georgia.
With Democrats becoming more bullish about their chances to retake the Senate in this year’s midterms, the Michigan primary, scheduled for August, is shaping up to be a critical race.
McMorrow is not the only Democrat in the race who has deleted social media posts. Last year, CNN reported that El-Sayed quietly erased thousands of old social media posts — including a dozen tweets that championed the “defund the police” movement, described police as “standing armies,” and urged cities to divert money from law enforcement to social services.
Archived snapshots preserved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine show that in 2022, McMorrow’s X account contained more than 20,000 tweets. Now, the account shows just 13,900 tweets.
Her deleted posts appear to have been removed after a 2025 New York Post story first highlighted McMorrow’s disparaging remarks about Michigan and “Middle America” after Trump’s election in 2016, with several of the posts cited in that report no longer accessible online, including one praising a thread arguing that rural Americans — not coastal elites — needed to better understand the rest of the country.
In one tweet in January 2017, when a user wrote, “California should have its own diplomats” to “make sure we don’t get nuked because of morons from the other side of the country,” Morrow responded, “There are days like these that make me miss California even more.”
In announcing her state Senate campaign in 2017, McMorrow struck a very different tone.
“Choosing to put roots down right here in Michigan is the best decision I’ve ever made,” she wrote on her campaign website at the time.
Her deleted posts span a wide range of topics.
Some show McMorrow expressing light-hearted support for a future without cars; highlighting a “white privilege” seminar at her alma mater, University of Notre Dame; and saying a southern border wall would limit the flow of avocados into the United States.
“Pushing for a future where we don’t own cars… Cars are dead,” she joked in one thread. “What about all the avocados from Mexico? If that wall gets built, bye avocados,” she said in another. “I’m particularly proud of my alma mater #NotreDame for offering a White Privilege seminar,” reads a since-purged 2014 post.
“Mallory started her career as a car designer and doesn’t want to ban cars. She’s been repeatedly endorsed by auto unions,” a spokesperson told CNN.
Some of the deleted posts could prove politically sensitive in a state that Trump has carried twice, and where auto manufacturing and rural communities are central to the political landscape.
Multiple deleted posts from McMorrow also had comparisons between the United States under Trump and Nazi Germany.
Just over a week into Trump’s first term in January 2017, McMorrow wrote, “Dr. Seuss, 1941. We’ve been here before, America. #AmericaFirst #NoMuslimBan,” linking to a Dr. Seuss cartoon about Nazi Germany. When another user wrote in July 2017 that they had “zero faith” they could change the minds of Trump supporters, McMorrow responded, “Agreed. But how do we fight back? Hitler had supporters. Stalin had supporters. Putin has supporters. No one will change their minds.”
In another post in October 2020, McMorrow shared a video featuring a Holocaust survivor warning about parallels between Nazi Germany and “Trump and his authoritarian aspirations.” McMorrow added, “Please watch the full 4-minute mini doc that a dear friend created with Walter, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor, warning about the parallels he sees between the rise of Nazi Germany and America today.”
Another tweet from February 2016, shortly after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, said, “Thoughts after Scalia, on life: Never be the type of person that makes people cheer when you’re dead.”
Other posts were more ambivalent about Michigan.
In a deleted tweet from November 2016, responding to another user’s comment about diversity in a Detroit diner, McMorrow wrote that one of her “first reactions” after Trump’s election victory was, “I wish I never left California,” before adding that after a week in Detroit she wanted to buy a home there.
In another post from March 2016 shortly after she moved to the state, McMorrow complained about the weather, writing, “Yesterday it was nearly 50 and now the sky is just shitting ice on everything. I don’t like you, Michigan.”
McMorrow’s campaign stood by her comments telling CNN, “The Michigan sky does in fact sometimes shit ice. She stands by that.”
Though McMorrow’s book tags her move happening in 2014, in a 2015 interview McMorrow said she moved in 2015. Instagram posts on her-personal-turned-campaign-Instagram show she listed her Los Angeles-area apartment being vacated in March 2016.
It’s unclear why she could continue to vote in California, after establishing residency in Michigan, but McMorrow shared a New York Magazine story that April about the state’s Democratic primary being important for the first time in decades. She later shared a crying image of the late actor James Van Der Beek of “Dawson’s Creek” fame lamenting the Democratic primary being settled before California voted.
Under California law, only state residents are eligible to vote in California elections, with residency defined as a voter’s established domicile and intent to remain.
In 2024, McMorrow chastised a Twitter user who said they voted in a state they no longer lived in when in a spat with a voter who moved to California but still voted in Michigan writing, “So you moved for work and live in California but are registered somewhere you no longer live?…that’s illegal.”