Top Kamala Aide Makes Shocking Excuse For Skipping Joe Rogan Podcast

Top aides of the failed Kamala Harris presidential campaign appeared this week on “Pod Save America,” where they discussed what went wrong, including why Harris never appeared on the most popular podcast in the world, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” after an invite.

Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe shockingly suggested host Joe Rogan did not have pure intentions and was using the invite as “leverage” so now-President-elect Donald Trump would appear in the Austin-based studio.

“So what’s clear is we offered to do it in Austin, people should know that,” Plouffe said. “It didn’t work out. Maybe they leveraged that to get Trump in studio, I don’t know.”

Stephanie Cutter, another senior Harris campaign adviser, claimed the team just couldn’t make a date work for the extremely popular podcast.

“We had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team, they were great, they wanted us to come on, we wanted to come on, we tried to get a date to make it work and, ultimately, we just weren’t able to find a date. We did go to Houston and she gave a great speech at an amazing event,” Cutter said, according to Fox News.

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“We were hoping to fit it in around that but ultimately weren’t able to do it,” she continued. “As it turns out, that was the day that Trump was taping his Joe Rogan [appearance], which they had never confirmed to us. We just kind of figured that out in the lead-up to it. You know, she was ready, willing to go on Joe Rogan.”

Despite evidence that shows Trump’s Rogan appearance helped him with younger males, Cutter insisted that keeping Harris off the podcast didn’t make a difference in the election. “It didn’t ultimately impact the outcome one way or another, but she (Harris) was willing to do whatever it takes,” Cutter said.

However, Jennifer Palmieri, senior adviser to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, gave another reason for skipping the podcast. She told The Financial Times that the appearance didn’t work out “because of concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic Party.”

“There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,” she said.

On social media platform X, politicos were not convinced by the explanations. Some pointed out that Harris decided to make time for the sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” which has much lower ratings than “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

“Kamala Harris ‘left the battleground’ to appear on SNL… which has far fewer viewers/listeners than Joe Rogan,” one comment read.

“I don’t know who is more incompetent, Kamala Harris the candidate or her campaign team that blew through more than a $1 billion and got crushed,” Steve Cortes wrote. “Her campaign is now claiming ‘Kamala didn’t have time’ to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast but they really wanted to!”

“It’s the #1 podcast in the world, and they couldn’t make time,” he said.

I don’t know who is more incompetent, Kamala Harris the candidate or her campaign team that blew through more than a $1 billion and got crushed.

Her campaign is now claiming “Kamala didn’t have time” to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast but they really wanted to!

It’s the #1 podcast in… pic.twitter.com/nZ7MNLmmIQ

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) November 26, 2024

Jeff Carlson called out the Harris team for “lying.” “Even during the post-mortem of her campaign,” he wrote, “the Harris people blatantly lie.”

Even during the post-mortem of her campaign the Harris people blatantly lie

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) November 26, 2024

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