Fox Information, Joe Rogan’s podcast—these are the sorts of shops you’d count on Republicans to frequent. However Vice President Kamala Harris is confirmed for the previous and is reportedly near confirming the latter. So what the heck is happening?
Profitable, that’s what.
On Tuesday, Day by day Kos provided an overview of Harris’ current and upcoming media schedule.
[W]hile [Donald] Trump has confined himself to interviews with pleasant shops like Fox Information, Harris has been on a media blitz chatting with a big selection of shops and hosts. She has appeared on “The View,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Howard Stern Show,” and the favored podcast “Call Her Daddy,” amongst different venues.
She can be scheduled to do an interview with Fox Information’ Bret Baier on Wednesday. Trump, who has accused Harris of “hiding,” complained about it on his Reality Social account.
She additionally appeared on “60 Minutes,” which was too scary for Trump.
Now “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the nation’s hottest podcast, could possibly be on faucet. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Harris’ workforce had not too long ago met with Rogan’s about an look. The transfer appears to be a part of her enchantment to younger males, who make up a big deal of Rogan’s viewers.
Conspicuously lacking from Harris’ current media hits is The New York Occasions, which whined in August about her refusal to sit down with them and different nationwide political shops.
And it’s been the sensible name. Harris has one job: win the election. Nothing else issues at this level.
You don’t like that former Vice President Dick Cheney endorsed Harris? Doesn’t matter. If big-name Republicans reluctantly endorse her to keep away from a second Trump administration, then nice.
You don’t like that she endorsed cryptocurrency? Does not matter. If that helps appeal to or not less than neutralize tech bros who’d in any other case comply with billionaire Elon Musk towards MAGA, then nice.
You don’t like how President Joe Biden was pushed out of the race? Doesn’t matter. If you wish to vent anger, do it after the election.
You don’t like this factor or that factor that nobody else cares about? Doesn’t matter. Her job isn’t to make you completely happy. She’s acquired your vote as a result of you realize what’s up. Her job is to corral sufficient of the small group of gettable votes to win the election.
We will argue coverage and vibes after the election. Proper now, the one factor that issues is successful. Can all of us agree on that? And that’s what Harris and her marketing campaign are targeted on.
By doing Rogan’s present and “Call Her Daddy,” Harris may have hit the 2 prime podcasts within the nation, reaching tens of tens of millions.
“Call Her Daddy” is closely targeted on girls, serving to Harris shore up assist amongst a key constituency. By no means-married girls have one of many lowest turnout charges, at roughly 39% between 1998 and 2022, in contrast with about 62% of married girls (with current spouses) throughout the identical time interval. And 72% of never-married feminine voters lean Democratic. Married girls? Fifty % lean Republican, and 45% lean Democratic. Harris completely must goose that never-married turnout.
In the meantime, Rogan’s podcast is “71% male and evenly split between high school and post-secondary graduates. Fifty seven percent of his audience reports earning over $50k per year, with 19% making over $100k. The average age of his listeners was 24,” in keeping with the media analytics firm Media Displays.
Everyone knows the troubles Democrats are having with males lately, experiencing a gender hole that persists throughout all racial and ethnic teams. The 2020 exit polls present that Trump gained 61% of white males, 19% of Black males (in contrast with simply 9% of Black girls), and 36% of Latino males (in contrast with 30% of Latinas).
Harris wants to chop into Trump’s enchantment to those teams as a lot as she will. A degree right here or there may make all of the distinction, not simply in her race, but additionally in important Senate races that may resolve management of the chamber, notably in Florida, Montana, Nebraska, and Texas. You higher consider that if we win any of these races, it’ll be by three- or four-digit vote margins.
And who is aware of if it’s within the playing cards, however a Rogan endorsement would reverberate far past the present’s listenership itself. You don’t like Rogan? Me neither. Who cares. See above. Profitable is the one factor that issues.
After which there’s Fox Information.
Yeah, Fox Information … I’m on document as fiercely opposing Democratic participation in something associated to Fox Information. It legitimizes the right-wing’s premier propaganda machine.
However who cares? All that issues proper now’s successful.
Just lately, a ballot by Blueprint discovered that 36% of those that both voted for Nikki Haley on this yr’s Republican presidential primaries or would favor her because the nominee say they’ll again Harris in November, in contrast with 45% who plan to again Trump. However 13% stay undecided.
In Pennsylvania’s Republican main, almost 159,000 folks voted for Haley, who had dropped out over a month earlier. 13 % of that’s near 21,000. In Wisconsin’s main, nearly 77,000 backed Haley—and 13% of that’s round 10,000. If the election is as shut as some concern, these numbers would definitely be a part of a successful Harris coalition, and happening Fox to succeed in these voters is effectively definitely worth the funding.
And it’s not simply the Haley voters up for grabs. The regular stream of present and former Republicans lining up for Harris reveals there are Republicans who care about our democracy and customary decency, and are keen to carry their noses for the Democratic ticket, even when simply this as soon as. And heck, after breaking that seal, they could even understand that voting blue wasn’t so unhealthy in any case! It’s effectively price making an attempt to chip into that Republican core.
As a bonus, it unhinges Trump even additional. Individuals are noticing how weird his conduct is changing into. And on Monday, he all however declared warfare on Fox Information.
“Neil Cavuto has one of the worst shows on Television—and the worst rated on FoxNews,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform. “The people on Fake News CNN are better!”
In one other, additionally on Monday, he misplaced his thoughts over the announcement of Harris’ interview on Fox Information, posting, “Lyin’ Kamala Harris has wisely chosen Bret Baier, of FoxNews, to do a much needed interview, because he is considered to be ‘Fair & Balanced,’ though often very soft to those on the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left. I would have preferred seeing a more hard hitting journalist, but Fox has grown so weak and soft on the Democrats, constantly polluting the airwaves with unopposed Kamala Representatives, that it all doesn’t matter anymore. Hopefully, the people will understand on November 5th, and Early Voting. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
After which there was this screed in opposition to all the community:
How a lot time does Ian Sams, Senior Advisor to Lyin’ Kamala Harris, spend on FoxNews? He’s now on Cavuto, Fox’s Lowest Rated Present, by far, and spent a lot of the weekend hitting “TRUMP,” completely unopposed, earlier than two actual “beauties,” Eric Shawn and Arthel Neville – Not precisely the following Walter Cronkite of the Broadcasting World! Sams is only a beneath common man, with memorized FAKE NEWS soundbites, nearly all of that are WRONG, however coupled with the entire different Harris Radical Left Democrat mouthpieces that Fox places on (Richard Fowler, Patrick Murphy, “something” Wolf, Jessica Tarloff?), it has a really adverse impact on the Election. Consider it, I spend an hour with the fantastic Maria Bartiromo, do a good looking job, after which am adopted up all day lengthy by one-sided, adverse Democrats, together with Ian Sams, who just about owns the Community. It’s not worthwhile doing Interviews on Fox, as a result of all of it simply averages out into NOTHING. FoxNews has completely misplaced its manner!
Except for its potential electoral profit, Harris’ look on Fox Information can be justified only for its destabilizing impact on Trump’s psychological state. He’s so worn down that on Monday evening, he lower a city corridor brief and stood on stage like an fool for 39 minutes as music performed over the sound system. That’s not efficient campaigning, particularly within the final month of campaigning.
As Harris works to broaden her enchantment, Trump is additional retreating into his media bubble, which can now not embody even Fox Information. On Tuesday, it was introduced that he backed out of a CNBC interview, in all probability too afraid to reply questions in regards to the glorious inventory market after promising in 2020 that it could crash if Biden was elected—the identical factor he’s promising now however about Harris. Additionally, Fox Information would possibly even rake him over the coals relating to his cuckoo tariff plan, one thing even Fox Information’ Maria Bartiromo known as him out on.
Trump is regressing, retrenching, and hiding. And whereas we don’t have to love it, Harris has a plan to win—and she or he’s executing on it.
