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In the lead as much as the presidential election, candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have taken to showing on podcasts to have interaction with potential voters.
According to Jeff Gulati, a political science professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., Harris and Trump’s podcast appearances are merely one other a part of their bigger marketing campaign and communication technique.
For Trump, this consists of interesting to younger, typically politically unengaged males, who’re “predisposed to assist him however much less more likely to vote,” Gulati says. The so-called “bro vote” is why Trump’s podcast appearances have landed him within the studios of bro-legends like Joe Rogan and Theo Von. The hope being that these appearances will ingratiate Trump with these younger males, sufficient to carry them out to the polls.
“It’s a dangerous technique,” Gulati says. “It’s the identical factor as his McDonald’s look: he is not making an attempt to faux like he is a daily man, however that he actually is the voice of the common man, and that he speaks for them.”
Harris, for her half, is deciding on her podcast appearances a lot in another way. Though it was rumored that she would even be on Joe Rogan, in her hunt for male voters, she has to date chosen podcasts with audiences that predominantly deal with ladies and younger Black males.
“The Harris marketing campaign looks like that they are going to win this election if they’ll actually benefit from this gender hole that they’ve,” Gulati says, emphasizing that Harris’ technique is much less dangerous than Trump’s. “The Harris marketing campaign is specializing in folks that they suppose are already engaged, [in a bid to] to get them extra engaged.”
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Below are among the key highlights from the main podcast appearances made by Harris and Trump.
Kamala Harris podcast appearances
Call Her Daddy
On Call Her Daddy, a podcast targeted on ladies’s points, psychological well being, intercourse and relationships, Harris leaned largely into her stance on abortion. Host Alex Cooper—who refers to her listeners because the “daddy gang,” requested Harris what she felt about Trump telling ladies he can be their “protector.”
“So, he who, when he was President, hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they might undo the protections of Roe v. Wade. And they did simply as he supposed. And there at the moment are 20 states with Trump abortion bans, together with bans that make no exception for rape or incest,” Harris stated on the podcast, which was launched Oct. 6. “So this is similar man that’s now saying that?”
Harris emphasised her dedication to reproductive rights by reminding the viewers that she is the primary Vice President to go to an abortion-providing clinic. She additionally responded to Trump’s claims throughout their debate that medical doctors underneath the Biden Administration wish to “take the lifetime of the infant within the ninth month, and even after delivery.” Harris referred to as this a “daring face lie.”
“That shouldn’t be taking place anyplace within the United States. It’s so insulting to counsel that that will be taking place and that girls can be doing that,” she stated.
All The Smoke
On Sept. 24, Harris sat down for an interview on the podcast All The Smoke, hosted by former NBA stars Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson.
One subject she spoke about was marajuana, stating that folks shouldn’t be in jail for possessing the drug.
“I simply suppose we now have come to some extent the place we now have to grasp that we have to legalize it and cease criminalizing this habits,” Harris stated.
She additionally laid out her financial plan to the hosts, significantly to extend funding for small companies, which incorporates as much as $50,000 tax deductions, and handle the nation’s housing affordability disaster, together with a $25,000 down cost help program for first-time homebuyers.
“I begin from the attitude that the overwhelming majority of oldsters wish to elevate their kids effectively. They love their kids, however they don’t essentially have the assets they want,” Harris stated. “And if we perceive that the youngsters of a neighborhood are the youngsters of the neighborhood, we’ll perceive that an funding in one thing like the primary yr of a kid’s life advantages all of us.”
The Breakfast Club
On Oct. 15, Harris sat down with radio host Charlamagne Tha God (Lenard McKelvey) for The Breakfast Club morning radio present. Here, she targeted closely on—and posted movies from the present speaking about—“delivering for Black males” by way of healthcare and training.
“It is an agenda that understands—by the best way, as a result of we’ve talked lots already about felony justice—the wants of the Black neighborhood are usually not nearly felony justice.”
She additionally went after Trump’s supposed plans to handle racial gaps and biases, pointing to Project 2025, which Trump has stated he has no involvement with.
“Ask Donald Trump what his plan is for Black America. Ask him,” she stated. “I’ll let you know what it’s…have a look at Project 2025.”
Donald Trump podcast appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
In Trump’s most up-to-date look, he joined Joe Rogan on his podcast. The interview, which was recorded on Oct. 25 and launched the next day, ended up being shut to 3 hours lengthy. Trump coated a spread of subjects, from praising Robert E. Lee’s navy technique to speculating about life on Mars.
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Rogan allowed Trump a chance to debate his 2020 election denialism, asking him to debate how he was “robbed.”
“What’s occurred is judges do not wish to contact it…The judges did not have what it took to show over an election,” he stated.
Off of the information that his former chief of workers John Kelly referred to as him a “fascist” earlier this week, Trump additionally instructed Rogan that he made a mistake in appointing sure folks.
“The greatest mistake I made was I picked some folks…I picked some nice folks, , however…I picked a couple of folks that I should not have picked. Neocons. Yeah, neocons or unhealthy folks or disloyal folks,” he stated.
Impaulsive
In the previous President’s first main podcast on this run—previous to President Joe Biden’s historic dropout and Harris’ bid for the presidency—Trump joined former YouTube prankster and vlogger Logan Paul on his podcast Impaulsive.
The interview, which was launched in June, got here quickly after Trump’s historic conviction on 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data, and Paul commented that Trump’s assist and the donations made to his marketing campaign had risen following the conviction.
“Hundreds of thousands and thousands of {dollars}…and too unhealthy it could not have been achieved for different causes however they considered the case as being so corrupt and so ridiculous,” Trump stated.
Trump additionally gifted Paul a T-shirt together with his personal mugshot on it.
“Our nation has great potential nevertheless it’s taking place the tubes very, very quickly. Nobody has ever seen something prefer it, the best way it is being run so unhealthy,” he stated.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
Stand-up comic turned podcaster Theo Von interviewed Trump for an episode which aired on Aug. 20. (Von has additionally since interviewed Bernie Sanders and J.D. Vance).
Here, Trump and Von largely mentioned their mutual associates within the U.F.C. world, dependancy, Trump’s brother and sons, and calling lobbyists a “large drawback.”
A viral second additionally stemmed from the dialog wherein Von and Trump mentioned drug dependancy, wherein Von instructed Trump that “cocaine will flip you right into a rattling owl, homie.”
Flagrant
On Oct. 9, Trump was a visitor on comedy podcast Flagrant, which is hosted by humorist Andrew Schulz alongside Akaash Singh, AlexxMedia, and Mark Gagnon.
The dialog started with dialogue on Trump’s kids, however turned to speak in regards to the assassination try in early July.
“I’ve nice respect for the Secret Service and the blokes that have been with me,” Trump stated. “Those bullets have been winging over my head. If it’d been up for one more couple of seconds, I wouldn’t be right here.”
He then hinted at attainable overseas conspiracy theories associated to the taking pictures incidents.
“They haven’t opened the shooters’ telephones—they usually had a number of. Why wouldn’t you open them? When you hear about overseas connections, like Iran, it makes you surprise.”
Another viral second got here after Trump stated that although his opponents can “say what they need,” he has “a tough time doing it to them, as a result of … I’m mainly a truthful particular person, however —”
In response to the assertion, Schulz started to chuckle.
Six Feet Under with Mark Calaway
On Six Feet Under with Mark Calaway, also called wrestling legend The Undertaker, Trump’s viral second got here when he mentioned wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who he says referred to as him after the assassination try in July.
“You know he was nice. I by no means thought he appreciated me,” Trump stated. “I felt badly as a result of I believe he’s a terrific man. When I used to be shot—you will have heard about it—Rock referred to as Dana White and stated ‘I wish to have his quantity. What he did is kind of unbelievable.’ He thought-about it bravery. It was very good truly.”
He additionally requested Calaway many questions on the realities and logistics of wrestling.
Bussin’ with the Boys
Trump made an look on the soccer present Bussin’ With The Boys with Will Compton and Taylor Lewan.
He mentioned sports activities, together with his views on transgender folks enjoying sports activities.
“They need males enjoying in ladies’s sports activities. I do not suppose I might ever say I’m thrilled about that. I’ve seen folks actually damage. In the Olympics… you noticed the younger Italian lady… she stated ‘I simply acquired hit by a horse. I am unable to take it,’” Trump stated.
Notably, within the incident he’s speaking about on the Olympics, the Algerian lady on the middle of the gender row—gold-medal winner Imane Khelif—shouldn’t be transgender and was born a organic lady.
PBD Podcast
Businessman Patrick Bet-David interviewed Trump for an episode posted on Oct. 17. The Republican presidential candidate but once more questioned Harris’ racial and ethnic identification.
“They have a lady who’s Black, though you’d say she’s Indian, however she is Black, however she actually—lots of people did not know, which is true,” Trump stated, to which Bet-David responded that he “discovered about it solely a few months in the past.”
He additionally mentioned a number of overseas coverage points, significantly tensions within the Middle East and the struggle between Russia and Ukraine, claiming that he would put an finish to the latter struggle whereas he’s President-elect and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would hearken to him if he wins in November.
“Had that election not been rigged and stolen, I let you know, we’d don’t have any issues anyplace on this planet,” Trump claimed.
When discussing Iran, he stated that he “wish to see Iran be very profitable. The solely factor is they’ll’t have a nuclear weapon.”
