Harris Team Planned Houston Rally with Joe Rogan in mind

On January 30, 2025By Littum

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a significant effort to come to Joe Rogan’s popular podcast in the midst of concern about her traction with male voters -who goes so far as to plan a Houston -Rally to justify a stop at Rogan’s Austin study, according to An upcoming book.

In the last weeks of the election, the Harris team was in conversations to sit down with the media personality if Reps insisted that the interview took place at his home base in Austin, which reported in an excerpt from NBC News’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes in “Fight: Inside the wildest fight for the White House.”

For Harris threatened stops in the solid red lonely stellar state in the diminishing days of her campaign to draw control and waste resources. But when her campaign weathered accusations that she avoided tough interviews and stared down shaking support from young men, A view of Rogan’s popular program was seen as a great potential lift worth working for.

“Harris had less than zero grounds to be in Texas. It wasn’t a swing mode. Her campaign was flushed with cash – so it made no sense to take her off track to raise money. She was in battlefield or-bust mode. Plus, a detour to Texas may smell like desperation for the press and a waste of money for donors, “reads an excerpt from” fight “.

Full extract: Ticktock of the Harris-Rogan sits down that falls apart

Then the Harris Team planned to fly Harris to Houston for a 25 October 2024, Rally, reported Allen and Parnes: “Under the cover of visiting a state with one of the country’s most restrictive abortion law – to put her nearby by Austin. “

The message hit some observers as a surprise break from the democratically nominated cross-cross of swing states ahead of election day, even when her team said that stops would elucidate the effects of anti-abort policies. But then, the same day the campaign announced Houston-rally, News broke out that Nu-President Trump would sit down with Rogan on October 25.

Rogan, one of the most popular and controversial media personalities in the country, had previously said he was not a Trump supporter. But his three -hour interview with the Republican 2024 front runner quickly went viral, and Rogan eventually approved him to return to the Oval Office.

The lack of finding agreement on a potential sit-down for Harris may have stumped efforts from the former vice president to reach young men who Make the majority by Rogan’s Massive fanbase.

Young voters have historically turned after Democrats and helped push the former president Bid to victory in 2020, but the Trump campaign’s pointed focus on young men seemed to exploit a growing gender division where young male voters move away from the democratic party.

With the accelerated timeline of her quick -track campaign, Harris seemed to use Targeted appearances To reach key demographics, such as sitting down for Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which is vastly popular with women.

Minnesota statesman Tim Walz (D), Harris’s vice presidential candidate, played video games on Twitch with rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), as the Harris-Walz campaign pointed to as evidence of their efforts to “meet young men where they are. “

But the campaign was still struggling to reach young men as experts have said were taken into account the Trump campaign with his Appeals to hypermasculinity.

ONE Harvard University Poll Right in front of the election found that Harris led Trump among both young men and women, but while she led with 30 points among young women, she was just 10 points ahead with young men.

It was the latest in a series of signs across the last more cycles that younger men move away from the Democrats while Women of all age groups have seemed to grow more likely to identify themselves as liberal.

Parnes and Allen also reported that there was a “final stabbing” from Harris helpers to offer Rogan another meeting, this time in Washington, after Harris gave a 29th October final argument speech.

“For the record, the Harris campaign has not gone on to the podcast,” Rogan wrote at Social platform x on October 29th. “They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they would only do one hour.”

In the end, Harris-Rogan was never realized.

Harris went through with his 25th October Houston Rally, and was approved on stage by music star Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, whose song “Freedom” was used as the Harris campaign’s anthem.

There had been humming that the “Texas team ‘European Championships” singer could appear on the democratic national convention, although a performance was not realized. “Fight” reports that there were plans for Beyoncé to sing at the Houston event, quoting a source who said the team planned for “her song ‘freedom’ a capella before Harris went on stage.” In the end, however, Beyoncé would only speak, not singing.

Harris-Walz rocked in A-Listen’s backers to the fast-paced campaign, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and James Taylor.

But in the election after the election, Democrats have questioned whether celebrity’s endorsements helped or hindered Harris when her party was pelted with accusations that it was out of turning with the working class.

Based on an excerpt from “Fight: Inside the wildest fight for the White House,” by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnesto be published on April 1 by William Morrow. Copyright © 2025 by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. Reprinted with permission from Harpercollins Publisher.

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