Advised Mallory’s campaign: can confirm everything Igor is reporting is absolutely correct. This posture started before Mallory even announced her Senate run and permeated via her consultants and staff as well.
To the erratic nature of dealings with her echoed by many Dems in Michigan today, Haley actually originally told Mallory she would not run for Senate and encouraged her to run, then aggressively attempted to bully her out of announcing once she realized Mallory was serious.
Long before Haley launched her own campaign, she was openly bragging to people in MI’s political circle that she would have an easy time running because of the tens of millions promised to her by AIPAC. That entitlement is why she never ran a real campaign, skipped forums, and felt like support for her from several key demos and groups was a forgone conclusion. She moves like a mob boss without any of the strategic prowess to sustain it. Threaten. Go scorched earth. Hit you up like nothing happened when you have something she needs. Repeat.
However disappointed and disgusted you are in her today, it isn’t enough.
Haley Stevens had a “bizarre obsession” with Mallory McMorrow, per a source familiar with the inner workings of Stevens’ Senate campaign:
“Nearly every thing Mallory said or did caused some sort of break down from Haley…Even after Mallory dropped out of the race, she and her fiance wanted to continue to attack McMorrow”
“On the day Mallory dropped out, Haley refused to call her. Instead, staff drafted a text for Haley to send to her. Haley still refused to send it, despite telling staff she was going to, and only sent it after a journalist from Politico reported that Haley had not reached out to Mallory yet.”
“There was a video that Haley attempted to film saying that Mallory had run a great race and encouraging Mallory’s supporters to vote for her, which ended up being scrapped because Haley sounded so insincere when praising McMorrow and her campaign.”