There are no signs that this US presidential election campaign is going to get any less zany, fraught and often just downright baffling.

Among the many examples, we can now add the fracas around Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer feeding a Dorito chip to Liz Plank, a Canadian writer and so-called influencer – admittedly with 611,000 followers on her Instagram page, that's more than the Herald – during a video interview called “Chip Chat”.

After clips appeared on social media, the bizarre scene ending with Governor Whitmer – wearing a Harris-Walz baseball cap and having "fed" Plank, who appears to be on her knees – turning to look at the camera with an impenetrable gaze, it got very heated with Catholics accusing Whitmer of mocking the Eucharist and the sacrament of Holy Communion.