Every once in a while, CNN seems to manage to air real news. I think Manu Raju might have managed to accomplish it with his new interview with one of the Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, Mallory McMorrow, who is now a Michigan state senator.
McMorrow is vying against two other Democrats for the nomination, and polls suggest it's very tight.
CNN had already reported that McMorrow deleted some of her prior social media posts criticizing the rural Midwest and praising California. Raju grilled her on that.
He asked her about a post she re-shared that said “all of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.” The same user went on to write several more posts she endorsed, including one that said “many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas.”
McMorrow had agreed with the posts at that time and said, "Trump’s base fears what they’ve never seen.”
Raju asked if she still stood by that. Her answer took a lot of gall.
Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow defends her tweet calling middle Americans "backwards."
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2026
CNN: “Do you stand by that sentiment that rural parts of America can learn from coastal elites?”
MCMORROW: "I stand by that." pic.twitter.com/djGd64IXoN
"I think we all need to understand each other better," she said. Then she attacked Trump for "weaponizing" people against each other.
“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."
Um, no, that was her putting down middle Americans and Trump supporters, saying they needed to learn from coastal elites. She can try to deflect to Trump; she said what she said. It was typical California elitist and just plain wrong. She can claim now she had no disdain for Trump voters, but that is not going to go over well.
McMorrow then made things worse, particularly given the threats against the president and the fact that he won Michigan in 2024. She claimed that she saw "parallels between Nazi Germany and what’s happening under the Trump administration."
SICK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2026
Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow compares the Trump administration to Nazi Germany:
CNN: “Do you personally see parallels between Nazi Germany and what’s happening under the Trump administration?”
MCMORROW: “Yeah, I do.” pic.twitter.com/uPLXHA7fxD
"To convince people if you're not doing well, it's someone else's fault, is an incredibly dangerous place to be in," she asserted.
This is one of those things that Democrats repeat like a mantra about President Donald Trump, like "very fine people," and it has about the same validity. You know who is actually always doing this? Democrats with their constant attacks on billionaires, suggesting that somehow, that is depriving poorer people. And the funny thing is that what she's saying with this comment was exactly what we just covered: She thinks Trump voters have been "convinced" that if they're not doing well, it's someone else's fault. What is that if not a claim that Trump has somehow fooled them, and she knows better?
But Raju particularly put her over the grill when he asked her about her voting record. She had written in her autobiography that she "permanently relocated" to Michigan from California in 2014. But then she also posted about voting in California in 2016. That's a small problem. "Why would you be voting in California two years after you moved to Michigan?" Raju asked. Listen to this spin.
CNN: “Why would you be voting in California 2 years after moving to Michigan?”
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2026
MCMORROW: “Moving takes time.”
CNN: "You had criticized a Twitter user in 2024 for voting in Michigan after moving to California, you called it illegal..."
MCMORROW: “Yeah, absolutely." pic.twitter.com/kE4xYSuXdo
"Like a lot of millennials, moving takes time," she replied, claiming she was still working in California and her husband, then boyfriend, was working in Michigan. She claimed it was a two-year process before she registered in August 2016 to vote there.
Raju pressed her on the fact that she had already said in her autobiography that she had relocated permanently in 2014, and that she posted about having left before the 2016 primary vote in California. She claims she still had her house in California and insists again that moving takes time.
Raju even pointed out that she had criticized another X user in 2024 for voting in Michigan after moving to California, calling it "illegal." She agreed now, saying yes, if you are doing that 'intentionally" after moving to a place, "that is illegal." She insisted she wasn't a "permanent" resident until 2016, despite what she had said.
Raju chided her, saying that she shouldn't have said what she said in her autobiography, and even then, she said we "made a decision" to do it [in 2014] but could have worded it differently.
Oh, please. If you have this much trouble now, don't even bother. If you think this is going to smooth it all over, think again; you just ran off the rails.
The summation:
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) May 3, 2026
She was not voting illegally, because it took her 2 years to move, and it is incorrect to say she was a Michigan resident at the time - as SHE had written in her AUTOBIOGRAPHY. https://t.co/2X6px9BfRa
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