The revolution will not be televised.

This 2024 election might go down in history as the year that YouTube and podcasts supplanted the mainstream media/television model of broadcasting. Maybe that’s not quite fair, but what we are seeing is that presidential candidates are increasingly relying on influencers, podcasters, talk radio hosts and friendly cable news shows to campaign.

In the last week or so, Donald Trump has appeared on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, “The Ben Shapiro Show” podcast and the “Flagrant” comedy podcast. He declined to appear on “60 Minutes.”

In recent months, Trump has talked to several others. According to NPR, this includes “Logan Paul — who has a combined following of 46 million across TikTok and Instagram — and Theo Von, who has collectively 14 million followers on the same platforms.”

Meanwhile, Harris appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” ABC’s “The View,” “The Howard Stern Show,” the “All The Smoke” basketball podcast and the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, did interviews with “Fox News Sunday” and ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

On the one hand, the contrast between the candidates is telling. As liberal writer Bill Scher noted in Washington Monthly, “Harris is trying to reach broad audiences across........

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