Controversial Democrat hopeful defends herself likening Trump's presidency to Nazi Germany

By VICTORIA CHURCHILL, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 19:20, 3 May 2026 | Updated: 19:20, 3 May 2026 A progressive Democrat candidate for the US Senate has likened the current state of America under US President Donald Trump to Nazi Germany. In an embarrassing interview on CNN's Inside Politics hosted by anchor Manu Raju on Sunday, Michigan hopeful for the US Senate, Mallory McMorrow was asked point-blank if she stood by earlier comments that she had made likening President Donald Trump and his supporters to Nazis. McMorrow told Raju on Sunday that 'it is deeply concerning that we see an authoritarian slide, and as we talked about earlier, dividing people against each other to convince people that if you're not doing well economically, it's somebody else's fault incredibly dangerous place for us to be in.' 'I don't think that a lot of people would argue that there are shades of authoritarianism here, that we need to be deeply concerned about,' she added. McMorrow also told Raju that she deleted posts made before 2020 upon entering the US Senate race, and that one of her opponents, Abdul El-Sayed, has also erased plenty of posts. However, McMorrow also noted that she did not remove the posts because she thought they were going to be problematic in her election. McMorrow currently serves in the Michigan State Senate and leads her colleagues as majority whip. A bombshell investigative report from CNN published earlier this week found that McMorrow had in the past criticized the rural Midwest, wished she were back in California - where she lived before moving to Michigan - and even trashed the state's use of cars, disregarding Michigan's history of car manufacturing in over 6,000 deleted tweets. She also posted numerous times about voting California after she claimed to have moved to Michigan. Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, answers questions from the media during the Michigan Democratic Party State Endorsement Convention, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Detroit Mallory McMorrow on CNN with Manu Raju discussing her deleted tweets, May 3rd, 2026 The tweets unearthed by CNN show that about a week into Trump's first term in January of 2017, McMorrow posted, 'Dr. Seuss, 1941. We've been here before, America. #AmericaFirst #NoMuslimBan,' linking to a Dr. Seuss cartoon about Nazi Germany.  When another user said in July 2017 they had 'zero faith' in their ability to change Trump supporters' minds, McMorrow replied, 'Agreed. But how do we fight back? Hitler had supporters. Stalin had supporters. Putin has supporters. No one will change their minds.' In a separate post from October 2020, McMorrow shared a video featuring a Holocaust survivor drawing 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.' Since those posts became public, McMorrow came under criticism for her previous comments by US Representative Haley Stevens, who called McMorrow's tweets 'a little tacky' when asked about the remarks by Raju on Capitol Hill earlier this week.  The Democrat likened Trump's America to the Third Reich More of Mallory McMorrow's past tweets found by CNN and aired on Inside Politics with Manu Raju on May 3, 2026 Abdul El-Sayed, right, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, answers a question during a press conference at the Michigan Democratic Party State Endorsement Convention, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Detroit One of Mallory McMorrow's past tweets found by CNN  comparing Trump to Hitler, which  aired on Inside Politics with Manu Raju on May 3, 2026 McMorrow played off the criticism by pointing out that she is running against two polished politicians, hasn't aimed to hold elected office since she was 'in diapers,' and that not every tweet she has ever posted has been eloquent. 'I've tweeted thousands of times. There is a level of authenticity and just grappling. In the wake of the 2016 election, of how somebody like Donald Trump could have been elected,' McMorrow told Raju. 'What I know is we are not each other's enemies, and we need to understand each other better,' McMorrow added. Stevens is one of McMorrow's primary opponents in the Michigan Senate race, along with El-Sayed.  Stevens represents her party's establishment wing, while McMorrow and El-Sayed are battling it out for the support of progressive voters. The Michigan primary is on August 4, 2026, meaning the candidates still have months to battle out their differences, and the fight is sure to get even uglier in the coming weeks. Polling conducted by the Glengariff Group and released on April 28th shows Stevens with 24.9 percent of support, compared to 22.9 percent for former Wayne County and Detroit health director El-Sayed, with McMorrow trailing at 16 percent.  In the wake of last week's White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting and assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump and his top allies, many elected leaders and talking heads across the political spectrum have called for a cooling down of the temperature around America's political rhetoric.  McMorrow is far from the only political figure on the left who has tried to make Trump out to be a Nazi.  US Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who ran in the Lone Star State's primary for US Senate before losing to progressive James Talarico in March, came under fire for branding Trump 'Temu Hitler' and calling his supporters 'mentally ill', which also helped put her on the map nationally. No comments have so far been submitted. 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