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Podcaster and MMA commentator Joe Rogan endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the eve of Election Day—netting Trump a huge endorsement from the popular podcast host hours before voting begins.
Rogan made the endorsement while reposting Monday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, which featured a nearly three-hour interview with billionaire Elon Musk–who has become one of the loudest and most prominent Trump supporters since endorsing him in July.
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“He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way,” Rogan said in a post on X, the social media site Musk purchased in 2022.
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” he added.
Rogan did not endorse the former president during the interview with Musk, but spoke glowingly of the Republican nominee with the SpaceX CEO.
Trump sat down for an interview with Rogan on Oct. 25. His vice presidential pick, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, also went on the podcast last week.
Rogan tried to book an interview with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, but the vice president’s campaign was reluctant to sit down with the podcaster for his typical interview length, which can sometimes run as long as three hours at his Austin, Texas, studio.
The former president almost immediately addressed the endorsement at his rally in Pennsylvania alongside former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, thanking the podcast host and complimenting his reach.
“I have some more big news, Megyn, I’m just getting this right now,” Trump told the crowd in Pittsburgh. “So somebody that’s very, very respected asked me to do his show two weeks ago, and I said, ‘Why not?’ And to me it’s very big because he’s the biggest there is I guess, in that world by far, somebody said ‘the biggest beyond anybody in a long time’ and his name is Joe Rogan and he’s never done this before. Thank you Joe. That’s so nice. And he doesn’t do that.”
“He tends to be a little bit more liberal than some of the people in this room,” Trump told the crowd of supporters. “I had a lot of fun, he was amazing.”
Rogan previously expressed some admiration for the Democratic nominee and even praised her campaign strategy.
“They did an amazing job from the moment Biden drops out, forcing Biden to drop out,” Rogan said in a September podcast episode after the presidential debate. “Whatever they’re doing, whoever’s writing those speeches, getting her to deliver them, coaching her—she’s nailing it.”
Rogan’s podcast is the most popular podcast on Spotify’s Podcast Charts, and video feeds of his interviews regularly get millions of views on YouTube. However, Rogan has also drawn criticism in the past for voicing support for conspiracy theories.
