Americans Rejected Kamala Because She Lacked Courage

One of the reasons that Kamala Harris was rejected on November 5th, setting aside disastrous policies, was a perceived lack of courage. On Friday, Joe Rogan asserted that Vice President Harris' campaign demanded topic "restrictions" and wanted to know whether he edits his interviews as they haggled over her potential appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience." Last week, Rogan revealed the Harris camp wanted to limit the interview to one hour, unlike President Trump's three-hour marathon interview just a week before the election.

Publicly, the campaign and her surrogates portrayed Kamala as courageous because she was the first black woman running for President. And yet, over and over again, they refused to allow her to undergo unscripted and unedited interviews.

You may remember that the Vice President relented to public pressure to appear on Fox News with Brett Baier. When the day came, Kamala walked in 15 minutes late and left early for an interview that was scheduled to go to air in less than an hour. Baier noted after the broadcast his team barely turned around the interview in time. It was a demonstration of power and fear. Her campaign intentionally created a tight time window forcing the Fox News hosts to skip over follow-up questions or to fact-check her on the fly before the clock would run out.

Even still, I argue her performance in that interview reinforced the perception among the American electorate that the Democratic Party was hiding her incompetence and agenda. The perception of her lack of courage crystalized into confirmed reality.

To win an election, you go to the voters - they don't come to you. By refusing to engage with young adult male voters where they hang out on platforms like Joe Rogan's podcasts, she contributed to her own crushing loss.

The irony should not be lost on us: the Red Wave mandate on November 5th, 2024 will stand as one of the most viral political moments in U.S. history - a resounding answer to a campaign that chose deception over courage.

(Jason Cohen, Daily Caller) The Harris campaign had explored the possibility of appearing on Rogan’s podcast in an attempt to increase her support among male voters, Reuters reported on Oct. 15. Rogan, on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said he accepted the “restrictions,” but made it clear that there would be no editing of the interview.

“There was a few restrictions of things they didn’t want to talk about, but I said, ‘I don’t give a f**k.’ I go, ‘Get her in here, like whatever you want to talk about.’ And they want to know if I edit,” Rogan said. “I’m like, ‘There’s not going to be any editing, there’s no editing. We’re not going to edit.'”

“Yeah, that’s the same thing they asked us. ‘Is there an edit?'” fellow podcast host Theo Von responded.

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