I don't think it was a HUGE mistake she didn't do Rogan but I think it was a mistake the way her campaign ran.

She would not have made it through Rogan. The thing you have to do about Trump is give him his dues. He's able to shoot the shit and he's ALWAYS unscripted. He can't be on script is his prob but Kamala has the opposite issue where she cannot be unscripted. Rogan would have entailed disaster for her so I get why they didn't want her on it.

However - she could have done other things. Sharing the stage with Beyonce, Oprah, et al was not really helping her cause. She couldn't get traction with undecideds. She couldn't even get traction with me and I'm a liberal Asian woman! She needed to do something like Rogan but not Rogan.

Trump's campaign did everything they should have. Trump wasn't always good but his campaign put forth the right things so any mistakes he made was his own fault but the aligned him with everything that made sense for someone like him. Kamala's people did not play up her strengths (although I'm actually not sure what they were) but they were correct not to put her in disaster situations. Unfortunately, they just didn't do enough.

Rogan was more interested in Tulsi Gabbard.

Anonymous wrote:Trump shoots from the hip and his supporters have already said they don't care about his gaffes and lies and derogatory words. Kamala is someone who has a harder time speaking impromptu and she would be scrutinized relentlessly plus the audience would be mostly male and confrontational towards whatever she said.

+1 liberal politicians aren’t allowed to have the same loose tongue that conservatives have. Kamala was criticized for laughing too much.

Trump shoots from the hip and his supporters have already said they don't care about his gaffes and lies and derogatory words. Kamala is someone who has a harder time speaking impromptu and she would be scrutinized relentlessly plus the audience would be mostly male and confrontational towards whatever she said.

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Anonymous wrote:What went wrong? Their camps were in negotiations for weeks but Kamala didn’t want to go to Austin to do the show.

What’s her big problem with traveling? She also didn’t want to go travel to the studio for the Call her Daddy podcast.

Given she lost by very small margins in a few Blue Wall states, don’t you think a podcast with Joe would’ve helped her just a bit with young voters?

No anyone who listens to Rogan is a hardcore maga.

Have you ever listened to Rogan, in full? Not snippets. He wanted a free form conversation with Kamala, her handlers refused. She is not capable enough to handle a free form interview without teleprompters or in ear communication. So many talented Democrats could have been viable options, yet she was the chosen one. Exceptionally poor plan by the democrat handlers. Glad it blew up in their faces.

I am not glad in blew up in their faces because I think we’re all in for a disastrous four years but you are not wrong about Rogan. Her handlers acted like it was this unreasonable thing that he wanted three whole hours with her but literally all his interviews are like that. It was a huge mistake that she and Walz as well did not do that podcast.

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Anonymous wrote:What went wrong? Their camps were in negotiations for weeks but Kamala didn’t want to go to Austin to do the show.

What’s her big problem with traveling? She also didn’t want to go travel to the studio for the Call her Daddy podcast.

Given she lost by very small margins in a few Blue Wall states, don’t you think a podcast with Joe would’ve helped her just a bit with young voters?

No anyone who listens to Rogan is a hardcore maga.

Have you ever listened to Rogan, in full? Not snippets. He wanted a free form conversation with Kamala, her handlers refused. She is not capable enough to handle a free form interview without teleprompters or in ear communication. So many talented Democrats could have been viable options, yet she was the chosen one. Exceptionally poor plan by the democrat handlers. Glad it blew up in their faces.

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Anonymous wrote:Harris is not good at unscripted discussions, hence the desire for a truncated one-hour interview and questions about edits. The campaign also wanted to control the interviews by having them on their turf, where they would have more control over lighting, wiring, editing. You don't have to worry about the latter if you have a candidate who converses well.

But why? Rogan isn’t Ted Koppell or Bill O Reilly. He is not a hard news guy. He just wanted to get to know her and talk about life. The same thing he did with Trump. Policy would’ve only been a side note.

He wasn’t going to ask her gotcha questions. He also changed his politics and positions on things and if Kamala explained why she changed her position on things once she received new info (the same thing Trump said), she would’ve came off as more human and relatable. The fact that Trump admitted to mistakes but Kamala didn’t is the biggest surprise to me.

You keep posting this over and over again. Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?

BTW - love his mistake. “I hired swamp monsters.” And you praised him, rather than realize that meant he broke his biggest campaign promise. So gullible.

Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? Why are you here if you don’t like the discussion matter?

I don’t understand why Kamala would go on the Call her Daddy podcast but not Joe Rogan. Trump stole the Rogan idea from Kamala. Why was she so afraid to answer questions? If she’s afraid of Rogan, imagine Kamala facing Putin.

Imagine Trump facing Putin when he was afraid to go on 60 minutes or debate again

Putin is thrilled.

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Anonymous wrote:Harris is not good at unscripted discussions, hence the desire for a truncated one-hour interview and questions about edits. The campaign also wanted to control the interviews by having them on their turf, where they would have more control over lighting, wiring, editing. You don't have to worry about the latter if you have a candidate who converses well.

But why? Rogan isn’t Ted Koppell or Bill O Reilly. He is not a hard news guy. He just wanted to get to know her and talk about life. The same thing he did with Trump. Policy would’ve only been a side note.

He wasn’t going to ask her gotcha questions. He also changed his politics and positions on things and if Kamala explained why she changed her position on things once she received new info (the same thing Trump said), she would’ve came off as more human and relatable. The fact that Trump admitted to mistakes but Kamala didn’t is the biggest surprise to me.

You keep posting this over and over again. Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?

BTW - love his mistake. “I hired swamp monsters.” And you praised him, rather than realize that meant he broke his biggest campaign promise. So gullible.

Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? Why are you here if you don’t like the discussion matter?

I don’t understand why Kamala would go on the Call her Daddy podcast but not Joe Rogan. Trump stole the Rogan idea from Kamala. Why was she so afraid to answer questions? If she’s afraid of Rogan, imagine Kamala facing Putin.

Imagine Trump facing Putin when he was afraid to go on 60 minutes or debate again

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Anonymous wrote:This was something of a tortoise and the hare situation.

Harris won the debate, thought she had the election in the bag, and avoided anything that carried the least bit of risk. She avoided any real interviews for weeks after the debate and then did only super friendly mainstream stuff in the final month.

Trump lose the debate and knew he had to do something unconventional to win. So he did three hours of Rogan and even spent an hour with Andrew Schulz, who was certainly not a friendly audience. The new media appearances garnered tens of millions of views and may well have turned the election.

What are you talking about? She had an interview with Fox News in October. Remember when Trump went on CNN or MSNBC? I sure don't (unless you count the CNN town hall that was packed with a MAGA audience, back in 2023 before he was even the nominee).

She deserves some credit for going on Fox, but one interview does not a strategy make.

Kamala campaigned like it was 1998. Trump beat Hillary by using analytics to his advantage and beat Kamala by leveraging new media.

But new media ain’t exactly new. That her campaign wasn’t on top of it is a bit shocking.

YAWN.
WHo cares. It never did. She could have a chair on Fox every night and 'it isn't enough' crowd will still blather on that 'it isn't enough' or 'if she only'.
This was baked in the cake already. Who cares now.

She didn’t run a perfect campaign by any means, but it wasn’t terrible either. But in retrospect there probably wasn’t much that she could have done to win.

Trump is a buffoon, but he's much smarter than Kamala. She cannot do more than repeat clips and phrases she memorizes. She's an intellectual lightweight with no theory of the way the world works.

The only candidate with a brain this cycle was Vance.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn’t Trump do a second debate? He was scared because he performed badly in the first one.

Because he didn’t need to., so why would he? But she did need to go on more podcasts with a wider audience.

Plus in fairness, he already did two national debates. Not his problem democrats didn’t like their first choice and switched. If I were him, I wouldn’t agree to a third debate either.

Because he's afraid of sharing his ideas with the public in a neutral, serious forum, and does better when he has Fox News screaming that they're eating the cats.

Anonymous wrote:She absolutely did not lose by very small margins- where have you been the last week?

Also this wouldn’t have made any difference but Rogan was free, Beyoncé was not 🤷‍♂️

In the mood to share any evidence?

Didn't think so.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Trump got the same vote as he got in 2020. She needed the moderates to come out but they did not. Going on Rogan would not get a single vote.

PoI:

Trump got over 4% more in 2024 than 2020.

~77.5M vs 74.2M

Exactly. Trump is going to end up getting at least 2-3 million more votes than in 2020, so i don't know why Dems keep saying he didn't get more. Also, 2020 was a unique turnout election because of Covid, so in reality it was inflated by probably 5%. So I'm the end, Trump probably increased his voter base by around 5 or 6 million, the Dems decreased by an equal number.

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Anonymous wrote:Why didn’t Trump do a second debate? He was scared because he performed badly in the first one.

Because he didn’t need to., so why would he? But she did need to go on more podcasts with a wider audience.

Plus in fairness, he already did two national debates. Not his problem democrats didn’t like their first choice and switched. If I were him, I wouldn’t agree to a third debate either.

Anonymous wrote:Why didn’t Trump do a second debate? He was scared because he performed badly in the first one.

Because he didn’t need to., so why would he? But she did need to go on more podcasts with a wider audience.