Joe Rogan defends Kamala Harris after guest doubts she could have handled 3-hour podcast like Trump

Joe Rogan defended former Vice President Kamala Harris when a guest doubted she could survive a three-hour podcast sit down like President Trump endured ahead of the 2024 election.The mega-popular podcaster and comedian James McCann were praising Trump’s viral October 2024 appearance on the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” when Rogan pushed back on claims that Harris would have bombed if she had sat through the same marathon interview.“He was able to talk for three hours whereas Kamala wouldn’t do it,” McCann said during Thursday’s episode of the hit podcast.

Rogan, who endorsed Trump, fired back that the failed Democratic candidate would have been “fine.”“Well, she could have — she could have done it,” the podcaster insisted.“I’m telling you man, it would have been fine.”The Australian comic said he felt Harris had a hard time getting through a six-minute interview on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” in August and would have struggled with a longer, in-depth conversation.Rogan argued that late-night shows are “handicapped” by time limits, commercial breaks, and the pressure of a live studio audience.

“If you’re going to have a really important conversation with someone, you don’t want to do it with a f—ing audience,” he added.“Also, you only have seven minutes before you have to cut for commercial, or whatever it is.

You can’t do that.It’ll take me seven minutes to ask her what she likes to cook.”Rogan then rattled off a laundry list of questions he would have asked Harris that he said would have kept their conversation going “for hours.”The ex-VP, however, never appeared on the popular podcast, with Rogan and Harris each providing their own take on why an interview never happened.

Rogan has repeatedly claimed that he gave Harris an “open opportunity” to do his show but then snubbed her after her team allegedly tried to impose ground rules, including limiting their interview to an hour and potentiall...