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'The Young Turks' snag a spot on the Trump press plane

When Jordan Chariton of "The Young Turks' and his cameraman found themselves on Donald Trump’s press plane this week, it was a brand new, and somewhat unexpected experience.

The duo, who work for a media organization and show which often hails itself as news that millennials actually watch, had traveled mostly independently from the campaigns they covered. (The TYT Network says it attracts around 86 million unique views per month across platforms, according to comScore). This was the first time they asked to travel with Trump’s campaign, and, with little to no problems, were allowed on.

Though the Trump campaign has recently relaxed its media blacklist, the move may not be so altruistic. Trump has made clear overtures to disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters, the Democratic socialist whom "The Young Turks" enthusiastically supported.

"With Trump’s campaign it’s a smart move. He talks at the rallies about how Bernie's people are 'going to come to me.' If he wants to pick off millennials, which 'The Young Turks" is dominant in, this would be the right channel to talk to,” Chariton said.

At a rally on Thursday, Trump bashed Sanders’ support of Hillary Clinton.

“The deal he made with Hillary was not the right thing and it was not representative of what he should have done to people,” he said. “We’ll have a lot of Bernie’s people supporting us, especially because of my views on trade. We are going to have a lot of Bernie people. He should’ve never made the deal. I bet you he wishes that he did not make that deal. That was not the right deal. The people of New Hampshire and everywhere else, don’t care about Bernie anymore because they are looking into the future and the future is going to be something special.”

Chariton said he also reached out to the Clinton campaign to travel with it as well, but had yet to hear back. Clinton traveling spokesman Nick Merrill said "The Young Turks" team had reached out, "but may not have necessarily told us when they want to travel. But they are welcome on any flight that isn't displacing our regular traveling journalists."

Chariton countered, saying he did let them know when he wanted to join, saying "Everyone is moving a mile-a-minute during the campaign, so I'm sure it was just overlooked that I'd expressed my interest in joining the day after the first presidential debate. I look forward to potentially joining going forward and offering Secretary Clinton the opportunity to do an interview with the largest progressive, millennial audience in the world."

"They probably know ’The Young Turks' wasn’t really cheering for her,” Chariton said of the Clinton campaign. "I think it’s a mistake because she’s doing pretty poorly with millennials."

On Monday’s “Young Turks” show, which airs on Fusion, Chariton argued that progressives should not vote for Clinton. His pinned tweet says, "Just reflected on sad fact tonight's #debatenight is between 2 serial liars and opportunists without any record of helping average Americans."

"I’d like to travel with them because our audience has a lot of preexisting mind-sets about her and I’d like to give her the opportunity … for them to maybe give the audience a different take, or at least expose the audience to it,” Chariton said.

This post has been updated with further comment from Chariton.

Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.