New Veepstakes: To risk a ride with Rogan?
➕ The major battleground-state *city* where turnout is straggling. 📉 10 days, yo!
Before campaigning in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday, Kamala Harris taped an interview with Norah O’Donnell to air on CBS Sunday Morning — a program that runs at 9 a.m. on a weekend and whose average viewer sits in their mid-60s.
I won’t be setting an alarm. 🥱
When I spotted this on her schedule it puzzled.
The one-on-one formal sit-down interview hasn’t been Harris’ strongest setting. It places her at risk to fumble through questions she’s not interested in answering 10 days from decision day. (WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENT THAN JOE?) And its primary audience is an older, stodgier, more affluent generation that has most likely already decided on a candidate or dutifully cast their ballots.
It feels like a play for 2015, not 2024.
One of the more compelling choices of the Trump campaign this cycle has been to place the former president on a string of bro-happy podcasts, which is, whether you like it or not, where a good chunk of the modern online zeitgeist lives.
We know that the Harris campaign was in talks to do Joe Rogan — the mothership of all pods 🎙️ — but it hasn’t yet come together, because of “scheduling” a Harris spokesperson said Thursday. In his three-hour romp with Trump that released on Friday night, Rogan said he’d still like to make the Harris episode happen (“She’s not gonna do it,” dared Trump) but time is running short and my assumption is that the stalemate is over exactly how much time she’d commit.
Rogan requires long, free-flowing conversations from his guests and a campaign at this stage is careful to erect precise guardrails around every major decision. Harris agreeing to do Rogan
