Harris campaign admits popular ‘Hot Ones’ podcast rejected having candidate on: ‘Weren’t going to take us’

Top erstwhile Harris run officials admitted Tuesday that the wildly popular, food-centric podcast "Hot Ones" rejected their petition to get Vice President Kamala Harris connected the show.

In an internet-breaking interrogation with progressive podcast "Pod Save America" connected Tuesday, Harris run elder advisor Stephanie Cutter revealed that "Hot Ones" refused to bash an episode with Harris due to the fact that they were unwilling to get political.

"'Hot Ones,' which is simply a large show, they didn’t privation to bash immoderate politics, truthful they weren’t going to instrumentality america oregon him," Cutter said, mentioning that some Harris and President-elect Donald Trump would not person made it connected the show.

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The Harris run precocious disclosed it was rejected successful its attempts to get Vice President Kamala Harris connected the fashionable YouTube podcast, "Hot Ones." (Hyoung Chang / Contributor | Andrew Harnik / Staff)

"Hot Ones" is simply a long-running YouTube speech show wherever big Sean Evans asks celebrities interrogation questions successful betwixt eating rounds of progressively spicy chickenhearted wings.

Recent guests person included "Gladiator II" prima Paul Mescal, popular prima Sabrina Carpenter, and late-night TV big Jimmy Fallon. The interviews routinely spell viral. Evans's interrogation with personage cook Gordon Ramsey presently has implicit 129 cardinal views.

The Harris campaign’s effort to get the vice president connected the amusement was portion of their strategy to person Harris look connected new, non-traditional media formats to summation entreaty among younger voters who get their quality online.

Harris appeared connected the raunchy women's enactment and relationship-focused "Call Her Daddy" podcast that premiered connected Oct. 6, though that quality has failed to interruption 1 cardinal views since. This paled successful examination to Trump’s quality connected "The Joe Rogan Experience" connected Oct. 25, that has implicit 50 cardinal views.

Cutter told "Pod Save America" that Harris was rejected "across the board" from non-traditional media shows that didn’t privation to get into politics. However, she noted that immoderate of the shows that rejected Harris for this reasoning inactive had Trump on. 

Harris run manager Jen O’Malley Dillon chimed in, saying, "I don’t deliberation helium had the aforesaid problem." Trump "certainly was capable to pat into immoderate taste elements successful ways that we couldn’t," she added.

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Joe Rogan and the Harris run some wanted to docket an interview, but according to Harris' aides, they were incapable to find the time. (Left: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC))

Podcast big Dan Pfeiffer replied, indicating helium recovered it hard to judge "that it would beryllium much politically problematic to person connected Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president of the United States, than Donald Trump, a antheral who’s been convicted of a transgression and tried to violently overthrow the election."

The run officials besides shed much airy connected wherefore Harris never got connected Rogan’s podcast, noting it was due to the fact that of scheduling conflicts with Trump’s ain interrogation with the host. 

"We were hoping to acceptable it successful astir that but yet weren’t capable to bash it," Cutter said. "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. You know, she was ready, consenting to spell connected Joe Rogan."

Cutter insisted that the run "wanted to travel on." 

"We had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team, they were great, they wanted america to travel on, we wanted to travel on, we tried to get a day to marque it enactment and, ultimately, we conscionable weren’t capable to find a date," she said. 

Rogan antecedently said helium gave ample accidental for Harris to look connected his show. 

"She had an accidental to travel present erstwhile she was successful Texas, and I virtually gave them an unfastened invitation. I said anytime," helium said.

"Hot Ones" declined to remark erstwhile reached by Fox News Digital. 

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