Vice President Kamala Harris was criticized on Sunday for flying to New York Metropolis to do a skit on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL), after she ended up not doing a sitdown with podcast host Joe Rogan.
Harris appeared because the mirror picture of Maya Rudolph, who often performs the vice chairman on SNL, in a last-minute look, simply days earlier than the election.
Rogan revealed not too long ago that the Harris marketing campaign reached out to Rogan about sitting down with the podcast host, demanded that Rogan journey to her for it and mentioned their interview may solely be an hour lengthy. Trump’s interview with Rogan lasted three hours.
Critics, together with Sen. Ted Cruz, hit the vice chairman for a way she run her marketing campaign and for declining to sit down down with Rogan whereas being keen to fly to NYC to do SNL.
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Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Fee (FCC), argued on social media that SNL evaded the FCC’s “equal time” rule. Trump marketing campaign senior advisor Jason Miller informed the Fox Information Channel’s Jacqui Heinrich that SNL didn’t lengthen an invite to Trump. She added that government producer Lorne Michaels mentioned simply final month that he did not have plans to ask both candidate.
SNL creator and government producer Lorne Michaels not too long ago mentioned he had not reached out and didn’t plan to not attain out to the presidential candidates for a possible cameo forward of the election.
Michaels informed the Hollywood Reporter it will be unlikely for Trump or Harris to seem for the present’s milestone fiftieth anniversary season, citing the necessity for “equal time” for each of them.
“You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,” Michaels mentioned. “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.”
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“That @Kamala Harris decided to do a scripted Saturday Night Live sketch instead of sitting down for a substantive conversation with Joe Rogan perfectly captures the vapid, insular, and condescending way she has run her entire campaign,” journalism professor Michael Shellenberger wrote on X.
He additionally sounded the alarm on the “equal time” provision and mentioned the Harris sketch was “humanizing.”
“While some say it’s cringe, I found it very humanizing. In a tight election, it’s precisely the kind of thing that could move low information voters, which is why the law requires that NBC give equal time to Trump,” Shellenberger wrote on X.
Rogan defined throughout an interview that Harris had an open invitation to sit down 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,” Rogan informed podcast host and satirist Konstantin Kisin.
“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,” Rogan mentioned.
Radio host Ari Hoffman identified that Harris’ look was just like SNL’s skit with Trump in 2015, throughout which Jimmy Fallon performed Trump, and confirmed the then-presidential candidate because the mirror picture of Fallon.
Harris appeared within the sketch alongside her impersonator, Maya Rudolph, on the finish of the chilly open. Within the sketch, Harris seems as a mirrored image in a mirror to supply recommendation to Rudolph’s Harris.
Others celebrated the looks, together with MSNBC authorized analyst Kristy Greenberg, who mentioned she was “so excited!”
Buzzfeed’s Spencer Althouse additionally mentioned Harris was “great” on SNL.
Fox Information’ David Rutz and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
