Each the West Wing and the hen wings eluded the Harris marketing campaign.
Widespread web present “Scorching Ones” turned down the chance to interview then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the vice chairman’s marketing campaign leaders revealed in a brand new podcast episode Tuesday.
The highest generals of Harris’ decidedly unsuccessful presidential marketing campaign gathered on the liberal-leaning “Pod Save America” to research the various causes for his or her loss.
The marketing campaign honchos listed the Democratic nominee being turned down for an look on Sean Evans’ profitable YouTube present “Scorching Ones” among the many many rationalizations and theories as to why Vice President Harris might be unemployed in January.
“Scorching Ones” — which options Evans interviewing celebrities as they eat progressively spicier hen wings — turned down the veep as a result of the present doesn’t wish to delve into politics, in keeping with Stephanie Cutter, who was in command of media technique for Harris.
Cutter stated on the podcast that the Harris group obtained that response “throughout the board” from non-political media.
“‘Scorching Ones,’ which is a superb present, they didn’t wanna do any politics, so that they weren’t going to take us or [Trump],” Cutter added.
In its greater than 350 episodes, spanning practically a decade of publishing, “Scorching Ones” has by no means hosted a politician.
The previous Harris staffers — together with Marketing campaign Chairwoman Jen O’Malley Dillon, advisor David Plouffe, Deputy Marketing campaign Supervisor Quentin Fulks, and Cutter — griped that President-elect Donald Trump didn’t seem to have an issue reserving appearances on well-liked, non-political reveals.
“I don’t assume he had the identical downside,” O’Malley Dillon stated in the course of the obvious coping session.
Trump was capable of “faucet into some cultural parts” that Harris was not capable of, she added.
The soon-to-be forty seventh president appeared on quite a lot of podcasts and web reveals main as much as the election together with comic Theo Von’s “This Previous Weekend,” golfer Bryson DeChambeau’s “Break 50,” Mark “The Undertaker” Calaway’s “Six Toes Underneath,” Barstool Sports activities’ “Bussin with the Boys,” and the world’s hottest podcast, “The Joe Rogan Expertise.” He additionally appeared on a stay stream with well-liked Kick streamer Adin Rose.
The Harris marketing campaign notably didn’t seem on “The Joe Rogan Expertise” — reportedly turning down an invitation to Rogan’s Austin studio.
The eponymous host revealed that the marketing campaign needed him to journey to satisfy Harris for an interview that might final below one hour. Rogan, whose episodes usually go the two- and even three-hour mark, rejected these calls for.
Plouffe insisted on Tuesday that Harris’ group provided to go to Austin and insinuated Rogan was enjoying the 2 campaigns towards one another.
“So what’s clear is we provided to do it in Austin, folks ought to know that. It didn’t work out. Possibly they leveraged that to get Trump within the studio, I don’t know, after which we had been clearly not going to be again in Texas, however provided to do it on the highway,” Plouffe advised the left-leaning viewers of “Pod Save America.”
Trump sat down in Rogan’s studio for a three-hour interview in Austin, on the identical day that Harris held a marketing campaign occasion with Beyonce in Houston.
Neither “Scorching Ones” nor the Harris camp responded to requests for remark.
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