Comedian and podcast host Andrew Schulz has said his team did reach out to the Harris campaign during last year’s presidential election even though her team claims otherwise.
Schultz spoke with the New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast about his efforts to get Democratic officials on his podcast, per Fox News. He said he reached out to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to appear on his podcast, “Flagrant,” to no avail.
In turn, the Democrats described his team as “sexist, bigoted and racist.”
He also asked then-Vice President Kamala Harris, but the campaign later asserted he never asked for her to appear on the podcast.
“It’s wild to blatantly lie when not only did I reach out — Charlamagne, who’s working with them, reached out,” Schulz said. “Mark Cuban, who’s a surrogate, reached out, and we reached out, and they blatantly lie.”
“Then when people write articles about it, they’ll say, ‘Andrew says he reached out to Kamala, but we reached out to the Kamala people, and they said that never happened.’ So what is the reader supposed to interpret that as?” he added.
“I think it’s an indictment on me, because it’s almost like calling me a liar,” Schulz said.
Schulz has since interviewed Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). He theorized the Democrats didn’t think it was necessary to go on podcasts to get the vote.
However, President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, did go on the podcast in October. That changed Schulz’s impression of Trump.
Schulz, a lifelong Democrat, voted for Trump.
“[M]y vote was more like I voted against a Democratic institution that I feel was stripping the democratic process from its constituents. I didn’t like the way things were going, and Kamala was saying, Yeah, we’re going to keep doing that,” Schulz said.
