Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was blasted on social media on Thursday after appearing in a video that showed her feeding a chip to a woman on her knees.
The woman in the video is feminist author Liz Plank, who has worked at NBC News and Vox Media. In the 8-second clip, Whitmer, while wearing a Harris/Walz cap, feeds a Doritos chip to Plank, who is sitting on her knees in front of the Michigan governor. Plank captioned the video, “if he won’t, big gretch will.”
Whitmer told Democrats at the party’s convention in Chicago in August that “in Lansing, they call me governor, but in Detroit, I’m Big Gretch!”
Shortly after posting the clip, however, Plank edited her caption to say, “If he won’t, Gretchen Whitmer will. Chips aren’t just delicious, the CHIPS Act is a game-changer for U.S. tech and manufacturing, boosting domestic production of semiconductors to…
