Trump opts for three-hour podcast interview over ‘old-fashioned’ TV interview

Big praise for the way Chinese President Xi Jinping “controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist”. And only a “smart president” can deal with Russia, referring to himself. These are two of the dozens of statements made by presidential candidate Trump in the podcast that is listened to by millions of people The Joe Rogan Experience.

Trump was heard for three hours in the podcast, which was recorded in the Texas city of Austin. He used the podium to make statements to strengthen his campaign, but sometimes he also faced criticism from Rogan.

For example, Trump repeated the baseless claim that the results of the 2020 presidential election – the year Biden became president – were manipulated. “Mass election fraud,” he told him. When Rogan asked if he would ever show proof of that, he replied with “um” and then quickly changed the subject.

The mudslinging of Kamala Harris also continued during the recording. He again called his opponent “someone with a low IQ”. On the other hand, he praised Tesla boss and Trump supporter Elon Musk “the greatest” to mention.

Both Trump and Harris have chosen podcasts over traditional media in recent weeks to appeal to a specific group of voters. Trump even gave an interview with him in a week full of podcasts 60 minutes af, the news program that has tested every presidential candidate over the last half century.

The advantage for candidates with podcasts is that they can often tell their story in a more relaxed environment without controversial questions and that they get enough time to present themselves in a longer conversation. That’s how Harris came in All Smoke She talked about her first date with her husband and her favorite basketball team, and introduced Trump Flag from what he finds so brilliant about the verb speaking style he uses knit reference

Despite this rather impressive format, the candidates can indeed deal with serious political issues at the same time. In the never-before-seen podcast among women The loss of her father Harris discussed the implications of Trump’s abortion policy and Trump seized on it PBD Podcast to Ukrainian President Zelensky, whom he blamed for the war in his country.

Both campaigns see this combination of content and human interest as the best way to present their candidate to a specific group. Young men are a population group that has become increasingly important in the past few weeks, just the group that Joe Rogan is particularly attractive to. While Kamala Harris is leading among women in the polls, it seems that men are voting heavily for Trump.

Because the margins are so narrow in this neck-and-neck race, the winner will probably be the one who does the best to rally their own supporters. No wonder then that Trump is the bro’s van Rogan looked up. Harris also flirted with visiting his show, but that turned out to “not work out from a calendar perspective,” her campaign said.

She visited the creator of the podcast Charlamagne tha God, which is aimed at a group of voters who are still not entirely sure about Harris: young black men. A few days ago, even former President Obama gave a speech to this group: he warned them not to leave the elections out of inconvenience to vote for a woman. “We can’t have that,” he said.