Both the West Wing and Chicken Wing escaped the Harris camp's attack.
The popular Internet show “Hot Ones” declined an opportunity to interview then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a campaign leader for the vice president's campaign revealed in a new podcast episode on Tuesday.
Top generals from Harris' apparently unsuccessful presidential campaign They gathered at the liberal-leaning “Pod Save America.'' To analyze the many reasons for their losses.
Democratic campaign managers have been denied an appearance on Sean Evans' successful YouTube show “Hot Ones” as one of the many justifications and theories as to why Vice President Harris will lose her job in January. Listed candidates.
Stephanie Cutter, who was in charge of media strategy for Harris, said she didn't want the show to delve into politics on “Hot Ones,” in which Evans interviews celebrities while eating progressively spicier chicken wings. He declined to be interviewed because he was not available.
Cutter said on the podcast that Harris' team got that response “across the board” from non-political media.
“'Hot Ones' is a great show. They didn't take us because they didn't want to do anything political. [Trump]” Cutter added.
In more than 350 episodes over nearly a decade of publication, “Hot Ones” has never hosted a political candidate.
Former Harris staffers, including campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon, adviser David Plouffe, deputy campaign director Quentin Fawkes and Cutter, say they have problems with President-elect Donald Trump booking appearances on popular non-political shows. I was dissatisfied that it didn't seem like it was being done. .
“I don't think he had the same issues,” O'Malley Dillon said during an apparent coping session.
She added that Trump was able to “leverage some cultural elements” that Harris could not.
In the run-up to the election, the soon-to-be 47th president will be hosting comedian Theo Fung's “This Past Weekend,” golfer Bryson DeChambeau's “Break 50,” and Mark “The Undertaker” Caraway's He has appeared on various podcasts and internet shows, including “Six Feet Under.'' ”, Barstool Sports’ “Bussin with the Boys” and the world’s most popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” He also appeared on a livestream with popular Kickstreamer Adin Rose.
Harris' camp specifically did not appear on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and reportedly declined an invitation to Rogan's Austin studio.
The eponymous host revealed that the campaign wanted to meet with Harris for an hour-long interview. Logan, whose episodes often exceed the two- and even three-hour standard, rejected those requests.
Plouffe claimed on Tuesday that Harris' team had offered to go to Austin and hinted that Logan was playing two campaigns against each other.
“What's clear is that we offered to hold it in Austin and people should know that. It didn't work out. Maybe they used that to get Trump into the studio. “They took us, I don't know, but we obviously weren't going back to Texas at the time, but we offered to do it on the street,” Plouffe told the left-wing viewers of “The Pod.” spoke. Save America. ”
Trump sat in Logan's studio in Austin for a three-hour interview on the same day that Harris held a campaign event in Houston with Beyoncé.
Neither Hot Ones nor the Harris campaign responded to requests for comment.
