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Joe Rogan defended former Vice President Kamala Harris when a guest doubted she could survive a three-hour podcast sit down like President Trump endured ahead of the 2024 election.
The mega-popular podcaster and comedian James McCann were praising Trump’s viral October 2024 appearance on the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” when Rogan pushed back on claims that Harris would have bombed if she had sat through the same marathon interview.
“He was able to talk for three hours whereas Kamala wouldn’t do it,” McCann said during Thursday’s episode of the hit podcast.
Rogan, who endorsed Trump, fired back that the failed Democratic candidate would have been “fine.”
“Well, she could have — she could have done it,” the podcaster insisted.
“I’m telling you man, it would have been fine.”
The Australian comic said he felt Harris had a hard time getting through a six-minute interview on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” in August and would have struggled with a longer, in-depth conversation.
Rogan argued that late-night shows are “handicapped” by time limits, commercial breaks, and the pressure of a live studio audience.
“If you’re going to have a really important conversation with someone, you don’t want to do it with a f—ing audience,” he added.
“Also, you only have seven minutes before you have to cut for commercial, or whatever it is. You can’t do that. It’ll take me seven minutes to ask her what she likes to cook.”
Rogan then rattled off a laundry list of questions he would have asked Harris that he said would have kept their conversation going “for hours.”
The ex-VP, however, never appeared on the popular podcast, with Rogan and Harris each providing their own take on why an interview never happened.
Rogan has repeatedly claimed that he gave Harris an “open opportunity” to do his show but then snubbed her after her team allegedly tried to impose ground rules, including limiting their interview to an hour and potentially having her handlers sit in the room.
He also stressed that her campaign wanted him to travel to her instead of recording in his Texas studio.
Harris’ former aides claimed in a book released last year that a date was scheduled and they were later informed Rogan was suddenly unavailable due to taking a “personal day” — coincidentally the same day Rogan interviewed Trump.
Rogan, who has denied the accusations, explained that he never deceived Harris. He noted that booking Trump was effortless, adding that the president recorded in his Austin studio without stipulations.
“Trump was super easy,” Rogan stressed in a February episode.
“We offered one day. He said, ‘Yes.’ That was it. There was no back-and-forth, no stipulations, no edits — just a straightforward booking. Harris’ team, on the other hand, never fully committed.”
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