* politics** What does this mean to you

Well obviously Harris can’t answer a question on the fly either since she avoids the press continually and wants the questions in advance.  

I don't think the candidates need to respond to everyone asking for an interview..and that is way to small an item to judge the candidate. how about not voting the guy who separated small children from their parents.. and some are never ever ever going to be reunited.

evil vs good (maybe not great but good)...

At least she can answer the question coherently and not dodge the bull by going on some tirade about whatever else or go on 4 different detours.

I'm guessing one that is favorable to Trump or he wouldn't be doing it. 

The GOP campaign has been hitting a lot of what is known as "dude influencer" podcasts in the last couple months. They see it as a good use of their time to reach the people they want to reach. I'm not sure why that would earn him respect. Without knowing who the podcaster is, I'm assuming he talked to someone catering to a friendly audience along the lines of Theo Von and Logan Paul.

The Harris campaign isn't sitting around doing nothing while they consider the invite. They are making a calculated decision on how/where to use their candidates on the campaign trail and IMHO, don't think this invite is a priority.

I think it means that Trump expected this to be a friendly to him forum and Harris did not. this happens all the time. Trump declines interview requests all the time. I don't fault either candidate for picking their forum.


What's important to me is what the candidate SAYS and DOES.

I rejected Trump 100% permanently the minute he mocked John McCain. Once the voters elected him President of the United States of America after making fun of someone who gave 5 years of his life - tortured - to the US I was done with those voters as well. And for those of you voters, how would you react if Harris said "I don't like Presidential candidates who've been shot at." ?? Please explain to me how you could have ANY respect for this man, Anyone???

I like some of Harris' policies and some I do not like at all. I will gladly vote for her. I will evaluate her and her opponent carefully if she is elected and runs for reelect in 2028.

Yeah. I'm out on that.

The fact that the OP doesn't see the irony of posting this, and then completely failing to see why one campaign might choose not to interact with a certain podcaster, is pretty funny.

But I'm sure that getting pushback for clueless commentary is why she avoids political posts in the first place.

ETA: If it is that Lex Fridman person, he is apparently also an Elon surrogate. That would be enough for any reasonable candidate to avoid him.

Personally, I hope I'm never "open minded" to fascism.

To answer the OP: here's what this means to me:

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Part of Trump’s campaign strategy is to not do Traditional campaign stumping. Instead, to reach his people he is doing a series of podcast visits with several male influencers. Elon, Logan Paul, Theo Von, Lex Friedman etc.

So what this means is that the GOP candidate wants to appear in a friendly place where he can air all his grievances for how he has been treated in response to his crimes, they can ramble on about their dreams for America where women are submissive to the indulgences of men, and black and brown people are in their place which is not in America, and if it is, it’s in a “black job” which is what?

So if you are a women and that’s the environment you are walking into you, you damn well ask for the questions in advance because they don’t want to interview you to inform their listeners about your policies. They want to embarrass you and use you as a metaphorical punching bag to earn clicks and $$$ for themselves. You are looking for the “gotchas” intended to give them an opportunity to rant and rave and make you look bad.

And if a person, a woman I’m guessing due to the demographics of this forum, who’s identity is so wrapped up in, “I could never vote for a Democrat, a progressive, a POC or woman.” Which ever combo of those four it is. Not even to preserve your basic, human rights which we claim and celebrate is a fundamental difference between the United States of America and what came before or elsewhere, despite the growing catalog of horrifying statements made by the GOP candidates and their surrogates that harkens back to the worst and most violent parts of the previous centuries, I can’t help that person.

In another forum, during Covid, I made a statement that, over the long term, the inability for humans to identify threats will have serious consequences. People have unnecessary died or become disabled rather than vaccinate themselves, or take any sort of precaution in the face of a brand new virus. People have ideas of what Climate Change will mean or not mean, and they couldn’t conceive of how dangerous and destructive storms could be that far inland, at that elevation we are seeing this weekend. Your insurance companies will have different ideas, and you will pay. And now women are playing chicken with their rights, because they are okay with taking away human rights and dignity of others. It won’t end how you think it will.

LOL like Don-Old can answer anything coherently? He never answers questions directly because he doesn't have answers beyond his talking points that he just keeps repeating or grievances he wants to air..

I love how he answered this question about how he would help keep jobs in the United States. Mind you, he was speaking in Michigan where there is a large population of autoworkers, so he had to know that the question, or something similar, was coming, and yet he did not have an answer. Instead we got a rant about his non-existent "man of the year award."


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If the podcast is any of those mentioned or one like them, I don't blame her for taking her time to make a decision or wanting to know the topics ahead of time. Like someone else said, she wants to know what she is walking into before making a decision. The fact that this podcast is framing the decision as a talking point for Trump (that the OP apparently fell for) says quite a bit on it's own. It also doesn't really seem like these podcasts represent the "common person" but more like the common Trump supporter.

Also, Trump just rambles about what he wants anyway so as long as he views the interviewer as friendly to him, he is good. Maybe Harris wants to hear the Trump episode first to find out what the tone towards her is.

The nice thing about a podcast, of course, is that a friendly host will edit out extended moments of word salad like Trump increasingly produces.

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Much better for Trump than live interviews like the one with the NABJ his handlers had to end early.

still waiting for anyone who is or has voted for Trump to explain it after the John McCain comment.

anyone??

Unless you can go back and make a spreadsheet of every interview each candidate has given to look for any overlap it's a moot point that Trump accepted this particular interview and Harris declined.