A fragment from a new book about the 2024 presidential elections shed new light on how former vice -president Kamala Harris fell apart the proposed interview with podcast giant Joe Rogan.
“Fight: Inside the Styste Battle for the White House”, by authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, provides a play-by-play From negotiations between the Rogan and Harris camps to guarantee the appearance of Harris on the podcast. The dialogue turned out to be fruitless and cost the campaign of the former Vice president, especially since the then candidate Donald Trump assured a Rogan interview that went viral.
“Trump spent three hours with Rogan in an interview that immediately went viral. The contrast was a” traumatic event, “said a Harris assistant,” whom I will never forget. “
A fragment from a new book about the presidential elections of 2024 described in detail how negotiations for a podcast interview between Joe Rogan former vice -president Harris fell apart. (Left: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)))
At the end of October-Net, Rogan confirmed after publishing his sit-down with Trump-that he had been negotiating with the Harris team for an interview, and noticed that conversations had come to a halt because of Harris’s demands. At that time he stated that he was still open to a future interview, and brought the Harris camp passed had not canceled either.
After the election victory of the Trump, Harris’ Team suggested That the President’s interview was the factor that killed negotiations.
“We hoped to fit around it, but in the end couldn’t do it,” said Harris Campaign Senior advisor Stephanie Cutter on “Pod Save America.” “It turns out that the day was that Trump hired his Joe Rogan (appearance), which they had never confirmed to us. We just thought of that a bit in the run -up.”
Rogan then endorsed the then candidate Trump on the eve of the elections.
The “Fight” section sheds more light on what happened, claiming that the first negotiations between Harris deputy campaign leader Rob Flaherty and Rogan’s representatives were Rocky. According to the book, Rogan sent them his list of interview conditions on 11 October, including: “No staff in the studio, no subject restrictions and Harris should sign a distance statement.”
Moreover, “Harris should come to Austin, Texas,” said the Rogan team, although they indicated that there was a slight leeway on this state.
Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan has been cited by many as a crucial moment that contributed to the decision of the 2024 elections. (The Joe Rogan experience)
The Harris campaign responded and said that “Harris would like to talk about censorship, weed and other issues that they thought would be the most interesting for his listeners.” However, Rogan did not agree.
As the book said, “Joe just wants to talk about the economy, the border and abortion.”
Then the dispute followed where Harris would meet Rogan. Flaherty presented an interview in Michigan, where the then president would be on the campaign track. “No-go, the Rogan team said after reaching the host on a hunting trip of a week. Austin or nothing,” parnes and all wrote.
According to their book: “Harris had less than zero reason to be in Texas”, as “she was in the battlefield or bust mode.”
“Plus one Om way to Texas Perhaps he smells like despair of the press and a waste of money for donors, “the authors also noted.
Apparently Harris campaign chef Jennifer O’Malley Dillon found a solution and told Rogan’s team that Harris would “go to Houston for a rally – under the cover of visiting a state with one of the most limited abortion laws of the nation – to Bringing her in the vicinity – to Austin “where she could go in the show.
Harris flew to the State under the auspices of fighting for reproductive rights, although all and Parnes wrote: “Only a few people knew the real reason: the entire Houston rally was built to bring her to Rogan.”
Although Harris made this concession, the Rogan team had more demands that the meeting seemed to dispel. When Flaherty said that Harris was going to Rogan’s studio on October 25, they came back.
“I wish we had known this before, because he blocked the 25th as a personal day,” said the Rogan team.
When Flaherty countered on Saturday morning, the people of the Podcast -Gastheer answered: “Only if it is before 8:30 am” did the fragment seem to suggest that message, but killed the conversations between the two camps. The book claimed that shortly thereafter the Harris camp discovered that Rogan spoke with Trump On his ‘personal day’.
The work stated that Harris assistants “made a final stitch and offered to let Rogan talk to the vice-president in Washington, DC” however “,” Rogan’s Team Balkte, with reference to the only Austin state. “Allen and Parnes quoted Flanders who told Rogan’s people:” You get a trip to Texas within three weeks after the elections. You don’t get two. “
Representatives for the Harris campaign did not respond immediately Fox News DigitalThe request for comments.
