Who won the day? Joe Rogan

When Joe Rogan’s interview with JD Vance posted Thursday on the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” it cemented America’s top podcaster as one of the media winners of the 2024 election cycle.

“The first time that I’ve been in a public spot without secret service in the room is right now,” Vance told Rogan, underscoring the podcaster’s rarefied status.

For some seven hours in recent weeks, Rogan has had access to the Republican ticket across two separate interviews in his Austin, Texas, studio — and nearly landed time with Kamala Harris, though in his telling he 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 now wields an unparalleled level of sway in a fracturing media environment — one of the major storylines of this presidential contest. He can quite literally realign presidential campaign schedules in a way it’s hard to imagine any other mainstream journalist coming close to at this moment.

Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump has scored 41 million views and counting — an audience that begins to rival the 47.9 million who tuned into the CNN debate featuring Trump and Joe Biden.

Rogan’s episode with Vance had scored 4.5 million views within the first six hours of its posting — and Democrats were furiously clipping any gaffes they could find.

And he won the day.

Even Thursday, Harris’ campaign would not close the door on a sit down with Rogan: “Not closing the door on anything there,” Harris spokesperson Kevin Munoz told Wake Up To Politics author Gabe Fleisher. “Stay tuned.”

We ask ourselves every night: Who won the day? Now we’ll tell you — every day. Last night, it was Trump.