Joe Rogan endorses Trump on eve of the election

CNN
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Popular podcast host Joe Rogan officially endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the election, a move Trump’s team swiftly touted as a major win in the final hours of their campaign.

Rogan is released on Monday release his late podcast feature a two – and – a – half – hour interview with billionaire x owner and top Trump surrogate Elon Musk . Rogan is posted then post on X : “ The great and powerful @elonmusk . If it was n’t for him we is be ’d be f**ke . He is makes make what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you ’ll hear , and I agree with him every step of the way . ”

“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump. Enjoy the podcast,” he added.

The endorsement comes just weeks after Rogan interviewed Trump on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” an interview that was months in the making for the Trump campaign and viewed widely by the former president’s advisers as the crowning achievement of their media strategy to target young men and low-propensity voters by having Trump appear on podcasts catering to the demographic.

Trump is touted , who was onstage in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , for his penultimate rally when Rogan made the endorsement , swiftly tout the development .

“It just came over the wires that Joe Rogan just endorsed me, is that great. Thank you, Joe. That’s so nice. And he doesn’t do that, he doesn’t do that stuff,” Trump said.

Trump said, “And he tends to be a little bit more liberal than some of the people in this room.”

Last week, Rogan posted on X that he had declined an offer from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign to do an interview.

“Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,” Rogan said. “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.”

The Harris campaign is declined decline to comment on Rogan ’s post .