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Vice President Kamala Harris faced criticism on Sunday for appearing in a last-minute Saturday Night Live skit as a mirror image to Maya Rudolph, who portrays her, instead of sitting down with podcast host Joe Rogan.
Rogan recently disclosed that Harris’s team had contacted him about an interview but required him to travel to her and limited it to one hour. This contrasts with Donald Trump’s three-hour interview with Rogan and his running mate JD Vance’s own three-hour interview with the popular podcast host.
Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz, slammed Vice President Harris for prioritizing her SNL appearance over a Rogan interview. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr argued that SNL may have bypassed the “equal time” rule. Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller told Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich that SNL hadn’t invited Trump, noting that producer Lorne Michaels recently stated he had no plans to invite either candidate.
SNL creator Lorne Michaels recently told The Hollywood Reporter he hadn’t reached out to Trump or Harris for a pre-election cameo, citing “equal time” considerations. He added it’s unlikely either candidate will appear during the show’s 50th anniversary season.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 3, 2024
This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.
The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct – a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.… https://t.co/LliZF0po9t
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) November 3, 2024
So much for election laws @nbcsnl https://t.co/yOGlUq8nPS
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 3, 2024
“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” Michaels said. “You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in, like, three states and that becomes really complicated.”
Rogan stated in an interview with satirist Konstantin Kisin that Harris had an open invitation to sit down with him:
“You could look at this, and you can say, ‘Oh, you’re being a diva,’ but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas, and I literally gave them an open invitation. I said anytime. I said if she’s done at 10, we’ll come back here at 10. I go, I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at 10 p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up, if she wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull. She actually reached out when she found out that [Trump] was coming on. So their camp reached out to me. So I said, ‘Great, I would love to talk to her.’ But it was very difficult to tie it down. They wanted to travel, and see, the thing is…if I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room. And they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure.”
Kamala Harris team going after Trump rallies in a swing state while she is in New York to appear on SNL is eerily, and I mean *EERILY* reminiscent of 2016. https://t.co/pjR6gb7M6Q
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 3, 2024
Putting only one Presidential candidate on right before the election was not cool, but this is very funny 😂
pic.twitter.com/CEGZj6O868— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 3, 2024
Kamala Harris is desperate and throws a last minute plea on SNL for people in Pennsylvania to vote for her. pic.twitter.com/HWfZLgSsqn
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 3, 2024
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