Know Your Enemy: Did Podcasters Make Trump President?

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Know Your Enemy: Did Podcasters Make Trump President? Know Your Enemy: Did Podcasters Make Trump President? Joe Rogan at Trump's inauguration in January (Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Among the many factors credited for Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race was one that, naturally, the hosts of Know Your Enemy took an interest in: podcasts. More specifically, “bro” podcasts—think Joe Rogan or Theo Von—seemed to be one reason why Trump continued to perform so well with male voters, especially gaining ground with younger, Black, and Latino men.