Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, will record an interview with Joe Rogan on Wednesday, days after former President Donald Trump sat down with the popular podcaster, a spokesperson for Vance said.
Vance, who is expected to hold a campaign event in Pennsylvania later Wednesday, will meet with Rogan at his podcast studio in Austin, Texas.
CNN was first to report the scheduled appearance.
Though it will be his first appearance on Rogan’s show, Vance has appeared on dozens of podcasts since he joined the Republican presidential ticket. Last week, he sat for two separate podcast recordings — with Theo Von and Tim Dillon — for nearly four hours combined of content.
Trump’s three-hour appearance last week spanned a wide variety of topics, including the war in Ukraine, Trump’s health and whether there is life on Mars.
The recording also gave a venue, however, to Trump’s widely disproven claims of a “stolen” 2020 election.
Rogan, whose political history is mixed, has made an endorsement in the election. He supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during the 2020 Democratic primaries and has said positive things about both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. In August, he also said he was a "fan" of then-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. but didn’t endorse his White House bid. "I’m not the guy to get political information from," he said at the time.
The interview was another iteration of the campaign’s effort to reach new swaths of voters through nontraditional media like podcasts and other venues on social media, like TikTok. The Trump interview episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” has already drawn over 37.5 million views on YouTube alone in less than a week. It's also part of the campaign's efforts to reach out to young male voters, who are a core part of Rogan's fan base.
Harris has also made several appearances on nontraditional outlets, most recently recording an appearance on Brené Brown’s podcast and, perhaps most notably, an interview on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast with host Alex Cooper in early October.
In an interview with MSNBC host Chris Hayes last week, Harris campaign spokesperson Ian Sams said that while Harris “is happy to go anywhere and any place to talk to a broad segment of the country,” her campaign schedule wouldn’t allow for an interview with Rogan.
“We talked with Rogan and his team about the podcast. Unfortunately, it isn’t going to work out right now because of the scheduling of this period of the campaign,” Sams said.
However, Rogan said Monday on X that an interview with Harris is still on the table but that they have yet to agree on the logistics of the interview.
“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,” Rogan said.
The Harris campaign didn’t immediately respond to Rogan’s post.
