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Joe Rogan claimed that Democrats are scrambling to create a liberal model of his hit podcast present following Donald Trump’s 2024 election win.
Kamala Harris was invited to seem on The Joe Rogan Expertise, however her marketing campaign was unable to agree on sure phrases, equivalent to location and size, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter. Harris marketing campaign aides not too long ago instructed podcast Pod Save America that she couldn’t take the time away from battleground states. Rogan did sit down for prolonged conversations with vice president-elect JD Vance, Elon Musk in addition to Trump , and likewise endorsed the Republican on election day.
Regardless of this, Rogan claimed that we was on the Democrats aspect at one level, in accordance with Huffington Submit.
“I think these ‘Call Her Daddy’ [podcast] shows and all these different shows that [Harris] went on, I mean, I’m sure they had an impact,” he stated on a current episode. “But I think that in the future, I’m sure they’re scrambling to try to create their own version of this show. This is one thing that keeps coming up, like, ‘We need our own Joe Rogan.’”
“However they’d me,” he added. “I used to be on their aspect.”
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Joe Rogan as soon as endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders not simply to win the Democratic nomination, however to take the presidency. (The Joe Rogan Expertise/YouTube)
His visitor on the episode, software program designer Marc Andreessen agreed with Rogan, saying that the Democrats “drove [Rogan] away.”
“However in addition they have, you understand, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN. Proper?” Andreessen requested, repeating the oft-touted line most TV information outfits again the Democrats, with the exception being the Republican-aligned Fox Information.
Rogan dismissed conventional media for podcasting — itself already a two-decade previous medium — saying broadcast information “does not work anymore.”
“It is like, you understand, such as you’re utilizing smoke alerts, and everyone else has a mobile phone,” Rogan stated. “It is simply, it is a weird time.”
Whereas Rogan’s media critiques could or could not have benefit, he is not flawed to say that he at one time did legitimately again the Democrats. In the course of the lead as much as the 2020 presidential election, Rogan backed Senator Bernie Sanders not simply to win the nomination, however to take the presidency.
Earlier this yr, he admitted that he “might see” Vice President Kamala Harris beating Trump in November.
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Joe Rogan and President-elect Donald Trump pose for a photograph in the course of the UFC 309 occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard on November 16, 2024 in New York Metropolis (Getty Pictures)
As of Thanksgiving, Rogan’s Trump episode has 52 million views on YouTube. He additionally has 14.5 hundreds of thousands followers on Spotify, by far essentially the most on the platform, in accordance with Enterprise Insider.
Harris’s episode of Name Her Daddy has simply over 900,000 views on YouTube.
In the course of the preliminary flurry of requires a left-wing Rogan, some commenters on-line — and now CNN — floated Twitch streamer Hasan Piker’s title as a potential candidate.
Piker is the platform’s most subscribed political streamer, however he is no Democrat. He’s a leftist who helps progressive insurance policies and politicians and is an advocate for employees’ rights and an finish to the conflict in Gaza.
He instructed CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan that he has no curiosity of taking part in the a part of a liberal Rogan, and doesn’t imagine the Democratic Get together “can podcast itself out of this problem.”
“Joe Rogan, he endorsed Bernie Sanders in 2020. Perhaps [the Democrats] ought to do an post-mortem on why he left the occasion,” Piker stated.
When requested what the Democrats wanted to vary to win again voters, Piker gave a easy, direct reply.
“Their policies,” he stated.
