Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been mocked after her audio “mysteriously” cut out as she was being questioned during a live interview about her strict COVID-19 lockdown orders.
The Democrat, 51, was grilled during a distant FOX 2 Detroit appearance on Monday on whether she had any regrets concerning the controversial pandemic measures she put in place.
“I’m sorry,” Whitmer immediately interjected as she appeared to the touch her earpiece.
A one who was off-camera with the governor could then be heard saying: “Oh s–t, I feel we lost …”
When the host asked Whitmer to proceed, the governor stared blankly on the camera and said to the off-camera person: “Did I do this after I touched the ear thing? It began to fall out.”
“Governor, are you able to hear me? Gov. Whitmer?” considered one of the hosts asked.
The governor continued to look on the camera before the studio eventually cut her feed and considered one of the hosts acknowledged that Whitmer “looks like she’s having some audio problems there.”
The ordeal sparked immediate ridicule from Whitmer’s Republican gubernatorial opponent, Tudor Dixon, who forged doubt on the purported audio gaffe.
“We hope Gretchen Whitmer can get back on air to reply this query about her disastrous COVID policies (or will the equipment mysteriously malfunction again?)” Dixon tweeted alongside a clip of the interview.
Whitmer didn’t return to this system to reply the query.
The governor was heavily criticized throughout the pandemic after she imposed measures that forced people to remain at home, and schools and most businesses to shutter their doors.
She was hit with multiple lawsuits over the restrictions and faced fierce backlash from Republicans who urged her to reopen the state.
Dixon, her GOP challenger, has made the Democrat’s COVID restrictions the centerpiece of her gubernatorial campaign.