Kamala Harris has set the record straight about wanting to appear on Joe Rogan‘s podcast, revealing she regrets not being able to go on the show during her 2024 presidential campaign.
“I wanted to do Joe Rogan’s show, and there was a lot of games being played, but I wanted to do Joe Rogan’s show,” Harris said while appearing on The Diary of a CEO podcast on Wednesday. “I think podcasting is a very powerful medium for people to get information, and to your point, for a lot of people that is a main source of information, and it’s important for us to support that.”
There has been some back and forth between Harris and Rogan’s camps as to who was to blame for the Joe Rogan Experience podcast appearance not happening. Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes claimed the Harris campaign rearranged her schedule for a possible appearance on the show but were told the host was taking a “personal day,” which turned out to be the same day Rogan interviewed Trump.
Rogan fired back by claiming that Harris and her team never agreed to an appearance on his podcast. He also said, ahead of the 2024 election, that her team wanted him to travel from Austin to New York to do the interview.
On an episode of his The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the host said he wanted to release his interviews with Trump and Harris on the same day. “[That was] my goal. I even offered to do it late that [same] night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like, ‘What if we do her when she’s done in [Houston], if she came here?’” he said. “But no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important, because they keep pretending that I lied.”
Meanwhile, Harris said during her recent podcast appearance than she wanted to go on Rogan’s show but was advised not to “because they assumed, as it turned out to be correct, that he was supporting Trump and that it would not be a productive piece for me.”
“But just like when I went on Fox News with Bret Baier, my perspective was they may have their bias, but there are people that listen who are open minded, and I’m going to go there and give them a chance to get to know me and give me a chance to make my case to them,” Harris said. “So, that was my perspective on Joe Rogan, just like it was my perspective on Fox. There was a lot of games being played around the scheduling, and it didn’t happen. I don’t have anything against the people who tune into Joe Rogan and would love to be able to talk with him in a direct manner as I wanted to during the campaign.”
When asked if she wished she would have put her foot down and insisted on going on the podcast, Harris said she’s not sure if it would have made a difference. After she reiterated that “it would have been great to do” the show, she pointed out that there was also the issue of the “tradeoff in terms of votes and where I spend my time” during her campaign.
“I regret that we didn’t do it. I definitely regret that we didn’t do it,” Harris concluded of the topic.
