A former top Harris campaign official acknowledged Tuesday that the wildly popular and food-focused podcast “Hot Ones” refused their request to have Vice President Kamala Harris joins the program
In an internet interview with the progressive podcast “Pod Save America” on Tuesday, senior adviser to the Harris campaign Stephanie Cutter revealed “Hot Ones.” refused to do an episode with Harris because they were unwilling to get into politics.
“’Hot Ones,’ which is a great show. They don’t want to do any politics. So they didn’t take us or him,” Cutter said. It mentioned that neither Harris nor President-elect Donald Trump would. The transaction has been made.
Harris’ campaign and allies have spent more than $1.4 billion on political ads defeating Trump.
The Harris campaign recently revealed that it was rejected in an attempt to have Vice President Kamala Harris appear on the popular YouTube podcast “Hot Ones.” (Hyoung Chang / Contributor | Andrew Harnik / Staff)
“Hot Ones” has been around for a long time. youtube talk show where host Sean Evans asks celebrity interview questions while eating increasingly spicy chicken wings.
Recent guests include “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal, pop star Sabrina Carpenter and late-night TV host Jimmy Fallon, whose interviews regularly go viral. Evans’ interview with celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey currently has more than 129 million views.
The Harris campaign’s effort to get the vice president on the show is part of their strategy to have Harris appear in new, non-traditional media formats to increase her appeal in Among young voters who get their news online
Harris appeared on the raunchy women’s sex and relationships podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which debuted on Oct. 1, though that appearance failed to break through. 1 million views since then. This pales in comparison to Trump’s appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Oct. 1, 2020, which received more than 50 million views.
Cutter told Pod Save America that Harris was rejected “across the board” from non-traditional media programs that didn’t want to get into politics. This still has Trump.
Harris campaign manager Jane O’Malley Dillon added: “I don’t think he has the same problem.” Trump “certainly has access to certain cultural elements in a way that we don’t,” she added.
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Joe Rogan and the Harris campaign team would like to schedule an interview. But Harris’ aides said they couldn’t find the time. (Left: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC))
Podcast host Dan Pfeiffer answers. Stating that he finds it hard to believe that “the current Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, is more politically problematic than Donald Trump, a man who has been convicted of a crime and has been prosecuted”. violently overturned the election”
Campaign officials also shed more light on why Harris never listened to Rogan’s podcast. They noted that this was because the schedule conflicted with Trump’s interview with the host.
“We hope to fit in. But in the end we couldn’t do it,” Cutter said. “It turns out that was the day Trump taped his Joe Rogan (appearance), which they never confirmed to us. We just need to figure out what’s going to happen. You know, she’s ready, she’s ready to continue with Joe Rogan.”
Cutter confirmed that the campaign “wanted to come.”
“We spoke to Joe Rogan’s team, they were great. They wanted us to come, we wanted to come, we tried to find a partner to make it work. and finally We just can’t find a partner,” she said.
Rogan previously said he gave Harris plenty of opportunities to appear on his show.
“She had the opportunity to come here when she was in Texas. And I actually invited them. I can tell you any time,” he said.
“Hot Ones” declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
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