(NewsNation) — Republican nominee Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance is set to sit down for an interview Wednesday with podcaster Joe Rogan in Austin, Texas, a spokesman told NewsNation.
Rogan has a podcast with more than 15 million followers on Spotify and around 17 million people subscribe to his YouTube channel than 17 million subscribers, NewsNation partner The Hill wrote. It is particularly popular with male voters, Reuters reports.
Trump himself was interviewed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” last Friday. During the three-hour conversation with Rogan, Trump repeated false claims about election fraud and the 2020 presidential election, in which he lost to current President Joe Biden.
While Rogan said he wants to interview Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, he said her campaign made requests he didn’t want to agree to.
“For the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast,” Rogan wrote on X Monday night. “They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make it happen.”
Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said last week on MSNBC that the vice president going on Rogan’s podcast “isn’t going to work out right now because of the scheduling of this . . . period of the campaign.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
