Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly in talks with podcaster Joe Rogan to sit down for an interview on his influential long-form talk show before Election Day.
Officials from the Harris-Walz campaign met with Rogan’s team this week, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
However, no appearance has been confirmed yet.
Awkwardly, the report comes at the same time Donald Trump is saying he is already scheduled to be on Rogan’s show.
‘Joe Rogan has to have you on — would you do that?’ a clip from the ‘Full Send’ podcast posted over the weekend shows a host asking the former president.
Trump shoots back: ‘Oh sure I would.’
‘In fact, I think I’m doing it,’ Trump continues.
The ex-president called Rogan a ‘good guy’ who is ‘so well known because of the UFC.’
It appears Rogan’s team is working both candidates to try and get them before his massive and mostly male audience before people head to the ballots or mail in their vote.
And the opportunity could be big for Harris, who has seen her support among male voters slip as polling shows the race between her and Trump narrowing.
After largely avoiding interviews after becoming the Democratic nominee in late July, Harris has been on a media blitz of late.
Last week, she appeared on a special Monday night episode of 60 Minutes.
On Tuesday, she traveled to New York to make appearances on The View, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show and the Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
She also taped an episode of the popular yet controversial podcast Call Her Daddy.
Rogan’s podcast called ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ (JRE) has consistently been the most popular show in the U.S. for years, garnering millions of plays from his some 13 – 19 million followers depending on the platform.
The music streaming platform Spotify, which famously signed Rogan to a deal reportedly worth more than $250 million, announced in March that JRE has 14.5 million followers.
Rogan has 13 million followers on X, 19 on Instagram and 17 million on YouTube.
A good majority of them are young males — the exact cohort Kamala Harris is trying to make inroads with weeks before Election Day on November 5.
Last year, a poll from YouGov found that 81 percent of JRE listeners are men, and 56 percent are under the age of 35.
Vice President Harris has also agreed to her first-ever sit-down interview with Fox News Channel after dodging unfriendly media since the start of the campaign.
The vice president will be interviewed by Bret Baier on Wednesday in Philadelphia after polls over the weekend showed former President Donald Trump chipping away at her lead.
She is expected to sit for 25 to 30 minutes for the segment that will air 20 days before election day.