{"id":1729117,"date":"2022-11-08T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729117"},"modified":"2022-11-08T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:02:45","slug":"michigan-gov-whitmer-bails-on-interview-when-questioned-about-pandemic-record-claims-audio-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-gov-whitmer-bails-on-interview-when-questioned-about-pandemic-record-claims-audio-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Gov. Whitmer Bails on Interview When Questioned About Pandemic Record, Claims Audio Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigan-gov-whitmer-bails-on-interview-when-questioned-about-pandemic-record-claims-audio-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Whitmer_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Michigan governor cites audio difficulty during live TV interview<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\" class=\"flex-video widescreen op-interactive  lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/benjamin-wilson\/\" title=\"Posts by Benjamin Wilson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Benjamin Wilson<\/a> \u2022 November 7, 2022 12:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Citing a technical difficulty, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer on Monday bailed on a live television interview immediately after the host asked a question about the Democrat&#8217;s pandemic record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you have any regrets,&#8221; the Fox 2 Detroit anchor asked Whitmer, who in response stared blankly into the camera. The governor then asked someone off-camera if she botched the audio by moving her AirPod, to which the person replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer, who frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/dem-govs-flout-own-covid-restrictions-to-attend-biden-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/dem-govs-flout-own-covid-restrictions-to-attend-biden-inauguration\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667921511115000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0cJ6Kj3zFAqY24nZoZAO7H\">disobeyed<\/a> her own COVID-19 rules, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/report-number-of-michigan-nursing-home-deaths-42-percent-larger-than-whitmer-disclosed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/report-number-of-michigan-nursing-home-deaths-42-percent-larger-than-whitmer-disclosed\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667921511115000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3HsPKZi_qq-WMbve4Tnyn7\">lied<\/a> about the number of deaths in Michigan nursing homes after she required facilities to take patients who tested positive for coronavirus. The number of deaths first reported was 5,675, until the state&#8217;s auditor general found in a January report that the number was 42 percent larger at 8,061.<\/p>\n<p>Her refusal to defend this record comes two weeks after Whitmer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dissecting-gretchen-whitmers-false-claim-that-michigan-students-were-only-out-of-classrooms-for-three-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dissecting-gretchen-whitmers-false-claim-that-michigan-students-were-only-out-of-classrooms-for-three-months\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1667921511115000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3SwNGPolhF7pxgukmlBMUv\">falsely claimed<\/a> that Michigan students were only out of school for three months. A <em>Washington\u00a0<\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em> investigation found that some schools used remote learning for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer will face off against Republican Tudor Dixon in Tuesday&#8217;s gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Michigan governor cites audio difficulty during live TV interview  Benjamin Wilson \u2022 November 7, 2022 12:15 pm Citing a technical difficulty, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}