Recent claims about Joe Rogan allegedly sabotaging Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign by preventing her appearance on his podcast have been addressed by the popular host himself, setting the record straight about what really happened.
During episode #2267 of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan responded to assertions made in a new book about the Harris campaign, which suggested he had misled the public during the 2024 presidential elections.
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“That is where the first red flags allegedly emerged.”
“We could do Friday, the 25th,” Harris’ deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty reportedly told Rogan’s associates on October 18.
“Wish we had known about this sooner, because he has the 25th blocked out as a personal day,” a Rogan rep allegedly responded.
“What about Saturday morning?” Flaherty countered, according to the book.
A terse response allegedly followed: “Only if it’s before 8:30 a.m.”
“Flaherty noticed the tone from Rogan’s camp was now “different.” The same people who had previously seemed open to a Rogan-Harris interview, as long as there were no topic restrictions, were now less eager.”
“The book suggests Flaherty was taken aback that Rogan—unlike everyone else in U.S. media—was not chomping at the bit to interview Harris less than two weeks before Election Day, especially given how rare her media appearances had been.”
“The vice president of the United States is offering to come to your f—ing show, and you keep putting up more hoops,” the book quoted Flaherty’s thinking at the time as being.”
“The book added that “Harris’ team still wanted to make it work, but a new wariness set in.”
“An answer seemingly emerged four days later. The Associated Press reported Trump was headed to Austin on October 25 for an interview with Rogan—the supposed “personal day” that Rogan’s camp told the Harris campaign he was unavailable for.”
“They never committed to doing the show,” Rogan explained to his guest Dan Richards. “There was another thing, they said they wanted to do the Beyonce thing, the Beyonce event in Houston, was so they could be in Texas to do my show. They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true.”
Rogan also refuted claims that Harris’s team had conducted a walkthrough of his studio. While the Trump administration’s Secret Service did inspect the location, this was because Trump had already confirmed his appearance.
According to Rogan, Trump’s booking process was straightforward. In contrast, Harris’s team proposed a Washington DC appearance with specific conditions, including a 45-60 minute time limit. Rogan expressed willingness to accommodate Harris, even offering to record late on the same night as Trump’s interview, with the intention of releasing both episodes simultaneously.
“I wanted to release both of them on the same day. This was my goal,” Rogan stated. “I even offered to do it late that night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like, ‘What if we do her when she’s done in Texas?’ But no one ever committed to doing it.”
UFC CEO Dana White offered his perspective on why Harris didn’t appear: “The reason that Kamala won’t do his show is because Kamala Harris cannot speak without a teleprompter and that’s a bad environment for her.”
Rogan emphasized that he maintains records of all communications regarding the potential interview. “They never said she was gonna do it. So this whole idea that we f—ed her over and then we f—ed her over for Trump… Incorrect! Just not true!”
The podcast host also revealed that Harris’s team requested additional conditions, including having a stenographer and staff present in the room – in contrast to Trump’s interview, which included only Rogan, Trump, and producer Jamie Vernon for the full three-hour duration.
“They wanted to do everything. They wanted it very controlled. And they were really concerned that it wasn’t going to be edited,” Rogan explained, suggesting these requirements indicated potential hesitation about doing the show in its typical format.
