Michigan Senate candidate defends her deleted posts after CNN report: ‘People are desperate for authenticity’ | CNN Politics

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a candidate in the state’s competitive Democratic US Senate primary, made the case for her “authenticity” while responding to criticism she’s facing after an investigation by CNN’s KFile revealed she deleted old social media posts criticizing the rural Midwest and praising California. McMorrow told CNN’s Manu Raju on “Inside Politics Sunday” that she is “not somebody who wanted to be in office or wanted to be in Congress when I was in diapers.” “I started my career as a car designer, and then I worked in a very different career and wasn’t thinking about it,” she said. “I tweeted normal things like a normal person, and people are desperate for authenticity, so that is what we need in November.” The Michigan Democrat, who has said she would not back Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to lead the caucus, said voters are “responding” to her call on the campaign trail for “new leadership in the Democratic Party that recognizes — not as a lifelong politician, but as an American and as Michiganders here — what’s actually at stake here.” McMorrow pointed to Maine, where Democratic leaders’ handpicked cand