Mark Swanson eagerly wrote in an April 9 Newsmax article:
Podcaster Joe Rogan speculated that the Democratic Party will yank Joe Biden from its presidential ticket next month, citing “health problems,” and replace him with California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Rogan made his prediction Saturday in an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” with guest, comedian Andrew Schulz.
“May. I think he’s got until May,” Rogan told Schulz. “I feel like right around May, they’re going to pull him.”
“And Newsom comes in,” Schulz said.
“I think he just has health problems and then the country understands, and Newsom is gonna have his support fully and Kamala [Harris] is gonna be like, ‘I don’t even want to be president, I’m cool with being vice president,'” Rogan opined.
“So Newsom runs with Kamala?” Schulz asked.
“Yeah, I think so,” Rogan said. “I don’t think they can pull Kamala.”
The theory that Biden will get pulled or step down is shared by many Republicans, including presumptive nominee Donald Trump himself, who has said more than once he doesn’t see Biden making it to November.
Needless to say, that didn’t happen — Biden remains the Democratic presidential candidate. Swanson has not revisited the issue to question why such a bogus prediction was given such prominence.
But Newsmax has given prominence to other Rogan rantings about Biden as well. An August 2023 article by Solange Reyner touted how Rogan claimed “the information being exposed about President Joe Biden is being done ‘on purpose’ by Democrats who want another candidate in 2024,” and a March 7 article by Jeffrey Rodack gushed that Rogan ranted that Biden is “mentally ‘gone,” and that his cabinet is a “sideshow of diversity.”
Newsmax seems to like Rogan for saying politically correct things — even if they turn out not to be true.