Call Her Dad­dy host mocks card­board set built by Har­ris cam­paign for pod­cast inter­view

The Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed how the Har­ris cam­paign blew through more than $1 bil­lion dur­ing its doomed fight with now-Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump. A source famil­iar told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er of the expen­di­ture relat­ed to Call Her Dad­dy. The Har­ris cam­paign has not dis­missed the fig­ure, and in a recent pod­cast inter­view of her own, cam­paign Chair­woman Jen O’Malley Dil­lon defend­ed the pay­ment in order to reach vot­ers.

When asked about it by the New York Times, host Alex Coop­er attempt­ed to dis­miss the sum and also offered up some details about the inter­view.

“My stu­dio that is gor­geous in Los Ange­les doesn’t even cost six fig­ures, so I don’t know how card­board walls could cost six fig­ures,” Coop­er told the New York Times of the Wash­ing­ton, D.C., set, meant to look like her Los Ange­les stu­dio. She also men­tioned it took place in a “ran­dom house.”

Coop­er and the crowd laughed after her quip that the makeshift stu­dio “wasn’t that nice.”

“It wasn’t like gor­geous mar­ble, like no that was not six fig­ures,” she added.

Coop­er inter­viewed Har­ris in ear­ly Octo­ber with the episode’s main focus falling on abor­tion. Har­ris men­tioned a vari­ety of stan­dard cam­paign points but also hit back at her GOP detrac­tors for how she does not have bio­log­i­cal chil­dren, call­ing such rhetoric “mean-spir­it­ed.”

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How­ev­er, while the episode lit a GOP firestorm regard­ing Harris’s appear­ance on the woman-focused pod­cast, it didn’t gen­er­ate the atten­tion that Trump’s inter­view on the Joe Rogan Expe­ri­ence lat­er did, on which Har­ris has been crit­i­cized for not appear­ing.

Coop­er also men­tioned that Trump’s team was inter­est­ed in appear­ing on her pod­cast, though he nev­er did. Coop­er said she was not direct­ly involved in the talks.