Elections on the Joe Rogan Experience
11 fact-checked claims across 6 episodes · Sep 2020 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 20, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
Most claims
- Kanye West (3)
- Tim Kennedy (2)
- Donald Trump (2)
- Elon Musk (2)
- Tulsi Gabbard (1)
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Logged claims
“117 percent of the people that are uh registered to vote in california”
The speaker relays a claim (attributed to Kayleigh McEnany) that 117% of registered voters in California could receive mail-in ballots, implying widespread voter fraud.
“But then you have this special category of superdelegates, which there are over 700 of them. It includes all 435 members of, or sorry, all Democratic members o…”
Gabbard describes the Democratic superdelegate system as including over 700 people, comprising all 435 members of Congress plus party-appointed leaders.
“Do you see some of the districts in Illinois during the 2016 election? There was like 104% came in for Obama”
The speaker claims certain Illinois districts recorded 104% turnout for Obama in the 2016 election.
“And we could talk about Elon, but he spent $270 million to elect Trump as president.”
Elon Musk spent $270 million to help elect Donald Trump president.
“You know, Jimmy Carter was in charge of a commission, you know, that many years ago and they put him and Scoop Jackson and various senators, you know, distingu…”
Trump claims a Jimmy Carter-led bipartisan commission's primary finding was that mail-in ballots cannot be used.
“You know the amazing thing with the machines? So we have the machines, they cost 10 times more. A paper ballot would cost 8%. And they make paper ballots, they…”
Trump claims electronic voting machines cost ten times more than paper ballots, which he says cost only 8% as much.
“Bernie yeah, Bernie would have won, he would have won.”
Kanye West claims Bernie Sanders would have won the 2020 Democratic nomination or general election had he been allowed to run unimpeded.
“so if people got up people that never voted uh got up registered voted for me they'd have to take it take it to the house because i would you know i could poss…”
Kanye West claims he is "definitely 100 percent winning" the 2024 presidential election.
“I would I'm on 12 ballots and in 17 states that you could write me in on.”
Kanye West claims he was officially on the ballot in 12 states and eligible as a write-in candidate in 17 additional states.
“and I think 84% of people polled believe that you should show ID to vote. So it's against the will of the people.”
Musk claims 84% of people polled believe voters should be required to show ID, and that California's ID-related voting law goes against this.
“What we're seeing is triple digit increases in the number of illegals in every swing state. In some cases, 700% increases. These are gigantic numbers.”
Musk claims government data shows triple-digit (in some cases 700%) increases in the number of undocumented immigrants in swing states, implying a deliberate strategy to flip elections permanently to Democrats.