In Arizona, Katie Hobbs refused to debate her Republican opponent, but Michigan's Whitmer may have established a new low bar for cowardice

Citing “audio difficulties”, Whitmer avoids answering questioning on her handling of the panicdemic.

Such a shame that technical problems denied Whitmer the opportunity to explain her actions; surely, her state’s voters would have been curious to hear what she had to say.

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's pandemic record.

"Do you have any regrets," 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, "It's okay."

Whitmer, who frequently disobeyed her own COVID-19 rules, lied 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's auditor general found in a January report that the number was 42 percent larger at 8,061.

Her refusal to defend this record comes two weeks after Whitmer falsely claimed that Michigan students were only out of school for three months. A Washington Free Beaconinvestigation found that some schools used remote learning for more than a year.

Whitmer will face off against Republican Tudor Dixon in Tuesday's gubernatorial election.

In fact, the official Democrat strategy for this election has been to go Full Basement, with most of its candidates refusing to debate at all, or limiting their exposure to a single session, late in the campaign after early voting had begun; that worked, barely, in 2020, but maybe not this time.