Key points from JD Vance’s interview with Joe Rogan

Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance talked to a popular podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday for a lengthy interview discussing his initial reaction to the assassination attempt. former President Donald Trumpviews on transgender rights and his favorite guilty pleasure Netflix, as well as a wide range of topics.

Rogan hosts the most popular podcast on Spotify, The Joe Rogan Experience, with approximately 14.5 million subscribers. His audience largely consists of young people, a key group of voters that Trump and Vance are trying to attract to the polls in the 2024 election.

Vance’s appearance on the series comes less than a week before the disputed 2024 election and just days after Rogan spoke with Trump about all thingsFrom aliens to election interference.

Rogan frequently signaled his agreement with Vance throughout the more than three-hour friendly chat and several times questioned Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ fitness for office.

Throughout the show, Vance frequently discussed his wife and two daughters, and at one point referred to himself as a “pretty boring guy.” Along with in-depth political discussions, Vance also opened up about his personal life and said he thinks Netflix’s Emily in Paris is a “masterpiece.”

Here are the key points from the podcast episode.

Anti-trans rhetoric

Rogan and Vance spoke at length about transgender rights at the beginning of the conversation, particularly about gender-affirming care for minors and whether people should be allowed to play on sports teams that match their gender identity.

“I’m the father of a two-year-old daughter,” Vance said. “I don’t want her to compete in sports, and I’m afraid she’ll be beaten to death because we’re allowing a six-foot tall man to compete against her in sports,” Vance said.

Vance also suggested that wealthy parents might go so far as to force their children to undergo gender surgery in order to get into top colleges and universities.

“If you’re a white middle- or upper-middle-class parent and the only thing you care about is whether your child gets into Harvard or Yale, obviously that path has become much more difficult for many in the upper-middle class. children,” he said, adding that “the only way these people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is if they are transgender.”

Vance later claimed that he wouldn’t be surprised if Trump won the “regular gay vote because, again, they just wanted to be left alone.”

“Now you add all these crazy things to it, like, ‘No, no, we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-old kids who are changing gender,’” Vance said.

Biden’s “garbage” comments

During the interview, Vance joked that he believes President Joe Biden is “trying to help” Donald Trump win the election, referencing comments Biden made earlier this week that said Trump supporters were “trash.”

Biden got hit back from Republicans and some Democrats for comments that the White House said targeted one supporter in particular, a comedian at a Trump rally who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

Vance said the comment was meant to be an attempt to help Trump, given the criticism Biden has since received.

“After we win, I will be convinced that Joe Biden was trying to help us all along,” Vance said. He also mentioned the moment when Biden jokingly put on a Trump 2024 hat during a visit to Pennsylvania on September 11th.

Vance also told Rogan that he would bet $20 that Biden plans to vote for Trump and $100 that his son, Hunter Biden, will also support the Republican nominee over Kamala Harris.

Biden endorsed Harris after he dropped out of the 2024 race in July and has been a vocal supporter of Harris’ campaign since then.

Climate change

During a lengthy discussion about the environment, Vance stated that he “didn’t have a clear idea that carbon footprint ultimately it is,” seeming hesitant about whether human-caused climate change exists.

“It’s interesting that the environmental movement in America only talks about the carbon footprint, but never talks about it. . . why we now have the highest obesity rate in the world,” Vance said.

Rogan added that it was “disturbing” that “the green movement is also profiting” and checked his name. Bill Gates which has invested billions of dollars in climate technology solutions.

The podcaster also cited an unproven claim from his interview with Trump: Wind turbines, a form of clean energy, are negatively impacting and even killing whales. Eat no evidence support these statements. Most whale deaths known to humanity are caused by boats and entanglement in fishing gear.

Where was Vance during Trump Assassination?

Vance told Rogan that he mini golf with family in Ohio when he learned that Trump had been shot in the ear during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally in June.

“I really thought they killed him because when you first watch the video, he grabs his ear and then falls,” Vance recalled after watching video of Trump’s July 13 rally. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, they just killed him.’

Just days earlier, Vance said Trump told him he was the favorite to become vice president. Trump announced the news at a rally but changed his mind.

Vance, a Marine veteran, said his first reaction to news of the attack was to load his weapon.

“I was so angry at first, but then I went into fight or flight mode,” he said. “I grab my kids, throw them in the car, go home and load all my guns.” And, in fact, I stand like a sentry. at our front door and that was my reaction to it.”

Rogan Harris says

Rogan expressed skepticism about Harris’ presidential candidacy at several points throughout the podcast.

“It’s just strange that everyone is recognizing that this man, who is the least popular vice president ever, is now the solution to the problem,” he told Vance, arguing that “the media machine has done a 180 in just a few days and I just sold it.” as a solution.”

“As long as they don’t allow her to have these conversations that she’s allowed to talk in, they can pull it off, and the fact that it’s happening without a primary should really concern people,” he said of Harris’ campaign.

Harris has been criticized for not doing many interviews in the first few months after accepting the Democratic nomination from Biden. Since then, she has embarked on a media blitz, appearing on several podcasts, daytime talk shows and news programs.

At one point, Harris was in talks to appear on Rogan’s show. Earlier this week, the podcaster reported that Harris agreed to appear on his podcast, but refused the terms of the interview because he would have to travel and he wanted to talk to her for more than an hour.

“My sincere wish is just to have a nice conversation and get to know her as a person,” Rogan said of the opportunity to interview Harris. “I really hope we can make it happen.”