Blunt book excerpt lays out how Kamala Harris campaign lost the Joe Rogan interview

An excerpt from a caller publication astir the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination shed caller airy connected however erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris’ projected interrogation with podcast elephantine Joe Rogan fell apart.

"Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for The White House," from authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, provided a play-by-play of negotiations betwixt the Rogan and Harris camps to unafraid Harris’ quality connected the podcast. The dialog proved fruitless and outgo the ex-vice president’s campaign, particularly arsenic then-candidate Donald Trump secured a Rogan interrogation that went viral.

"Trump spent 3 hours with Rogan successful an interrogation that instantly went viral. The opposition amounted to a ‘traumatic event,’ said 1 Harris aide, ‘that I volition ne'er forget.’"

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An excerpt from a caller publication astir the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination elaborate however negotiations for a podcast interrogation betwixt Joe Rogan erstwhile Vice President Harris fell apart. (Left: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images),Right: (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC))

Rogan confirmed successful precocious October – conscionable aft publishing his sit-down with Trump – that helium had been successful negotiations with the Harris squad for an interview, noting that talks had travel to basal inactive due to the fact that of Harris’ demands. At the time, helium expressed that helium was inactive unfastened to a aboriginal interview, and relayed that the Harris camp hadn’t canceled either. 

Following the Trump’s predetermination victory, Harris’ squad suggested that the president’s interrogation was the origin that killed negotiations. 

"We were hoping to acceptable it successful astir that but yet weren’t capable to bash it," Harris run elder advisor Stephanie Cutter said connected "Pod Save America." "As it turns out, that was the time that Trump was taping his Joe Rogan [appearance], which they had ne'er confirmed to us. We conscionable benignant of figured that retired successful the lead-up to it."

Rogan went connected to endorse then-candidate Trump connected the eve of the election. 

The conception from "Fight" shed much airy connected what happened, alleging that archetypal negotiations held betwixt Harris lawman run manager Rob Flaherty and Rogan’s reps were rocky. According to the book, Rogan sent them his database of interrogation conditions connected Oct. 11, which included, "no unit successful the studio, nary taxable restrictions, and Harris would person to motion a waiver."

Additionally, "Harris would person to travel to Austin, Texas," according to the Rogan team, though they signaled determination was immoderate flimsy leeway connected this condition.

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Trump's interrogation with Joe Rogan has been cited by galore arsenic a pivotal infinitesimal that helped determine the 2024 election. (The Joe Rogan Experience)

The Harris run responded, saying that "Harris would beryllium blessed to speech astir societal media censorship, weed, and different issues they thought would beryllium of astir involvement to his listeners." However, Rogan disagreed.

As the publication said, "Joe conscionable wants to speech astir the economy, the border, and abortion."

Then the quality implicit wherever Harris would conscionable Rogan ensued. Flaherty projected an interrogation successful Michigan, wherever the then-vice president would beryllium connected the run trail. "No-go, the Rogan squad said aft reaching the big connected a weeklong hunting trip. Austin oregon nothing," Parnes and Allen wrote. 

According to their book, "Harris had little than zero crushed to beryllium successful Texas," arsenic "she was successful battleground-or-bust mode."

"Plus, a detour to Texas mightiness odor similar desperation to the property and a discarded of wealth to donors," the authors besides noted. 

Apparently, Harris run main Jennifer O’Malley Dillon recovered a solution, telling Rogan’s squad that Harris would question "to Houston for a rally—under the screen of visiting a authorities with 1 of the nation’s astir restrictive termination laws—to enactment her successful proximity to Austin" wherever she could spell connected the show. 

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Harris flew to the authorities nether the auspices of warring for reproductive rights, though Allen and Parnes wrote, "Only a fewer radical knew the existent reason: the full Houston rally was built to enactment her successful proximity to Rogan."

Despite Harris making this concession, Rogan’s squad had much demands that seemed to doom the meeting. When Flaherty mentioned Harris going to Rogan’s workplace connected Oct. 25, they dodged again. 

"Wish we had known astir this sooner, due to the fact that helium has the 25th blocked retired arsenic a idiosyncratic day," the Rogan squad said. 

When Flaherty countered with Saturday morning, the podcast host’s radical replied, "Only if it’s earlier 8:30 a.m." The excerpt appeared to suggest that connection each but killed the talks betwixt the 2 camps. The publication alleged that soon afterward, the Harris campy recovered retired that Rogan spoke with Trump connected his "personal day." 

The enactment mentioned that Harris aides "made a last stab, offering to fto Rogan speech with the vice president successful Washington, D.C." However, "Rogan’s squad balked, citing the Austin-only condition." Allen and Parnes quoted Flaherty telling Rogan’s people, "You get 1 travel to Texas wrong 3 weeks of the election. You don’t get two."

Reps for Harris' run did not instantly reply to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

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