Young left-wing staffers in Kamala Harris’s campaign kicked up a backlash over a plan for the vice president to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast, according to a report Wednesday.
Harris’s opponent, Donald Trump, appeared on the podcast with Rogan, who later endorsed the former president on the eve of the election. Following the episode with Trump, Rogan said that he made an offer to Harris’s team but they refused to fly to his studio in Austin, Texas, where Trump sat for the interview.
On Wednesday, the Financial Times shed some new light on the campaign’s decision to nix the Rogan appearance. According to a campaign adviser, woke staffers were upset about the optics of Harris appearing on a show like Rogan’s, which caters to a predominantly non-woke, male audience. (Stream Daily Caller’s latest documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)
“There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,” Jennifer Palmieri, a senior adviser to Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, told the Financial Times.
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 06: Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris departs the stage after conceding the election, at Howard University on November 06, 2024 in Washington, DC. After a contentious campaign focused on key battleground states, the Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump was projected to secure the majority of electoral votes, giving him a second term as U.S. President. Republicans also secured control of the Senate for the first time in four years. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Color me shocked: young, idealistic, left-wing staffers disconnected from reality bullying the supposed adults in the room into making a stupid decision. How many times have we seen that before?
It’s likely Kamala’s appearance on Rogan’s show would not have made a difference. She probably would’ve bombed. But, for a campaign performing so poorly among young men, it’s also possible an interview with the mega-famous podcaster could’ve helped her make inroads with that demographic. It would’ve been worth a shot, at least. And it was a terrible look for her to back down from an appearance after Trump chopped it up with Rogan for hours.
The saga seems emblematic of so many liberal institutions, which increasingly cow-tow to a small minority of whiny activists. Whether it’s in legacy media companies like The Washington Post or The New York Times or prestigious universities like Harvard or Yale, young left-wingers are taking the older crowds out to lunch. The adults in the room are not adults at all: they’re cowards running little daycare centers for the spoiled and stupid.
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