Kamala Harris' campaign staffers said Harris sought an appearance on "Hot Ones" but the show declined, saying it didn't want to delve into politics.

Donald Duck got a spicy sit-down on “Hot Ones.” VP Kamala Harris had no such luck. Not that it would have changed the outcome of the election, but the Harris campaign had wanted the Democratic presidential candidate to appear on “Hot Ones,

During an election post-mortem episode of the "Pod Save America" podcast, Jen O'Malley Dillon, the Harris-Walz campaign chair, Quentin Fulks, deputy campaign manager, and senior advisors Stephanie Cutter and David Plouffe revealed that they reached out to "Hot Ones" about having their candidate on during a point in Harris' campaign where she was angling for appearances on non-political shows,