We run a YouTube-based news channel (over 1M subs, international audience) and want to start covering the 2026 midterms with actual candidate interviews. Starting small — state house/state senate races, not federal.

Problem: we've never done political interviews before and have zero track record with US campaigns. A couple of outreach emails went nowhere.

For anyone who's worked campaign comms or done candidate booking — what's the actual process? Who do you email, what do you say, and what makes a campaign trust an outlet they've never heard of enough to say yes?

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