Mallory McMorrow faces questions over decade-old deleted tweets
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Updated · The New York Times · May 10
Mallory McMorrow faces questions over decade-old deleted tweets
7 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 10
The Michigan Democratic Senate candidate, 39, defended posts unearthed by CNN that included “I don’t like you, Michigan” and “cars are dead.”
Primary rivals seized on the comments, which clashed with her current moderate image and risked alienating voters in the auto-industry battleground state.
McMorrow said the tweets showed she had once posted like a normal person, reflecting a now-routine campaign pattern of old social media resurfacing and candidates distancing themselves.
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