Standing before a backdrop of signs about deporting illegal immigrants and ending migrant crime, Trump was flanked by Border Patrol officials and Alexis Nungaray, whose 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn was killed allegedly by two members of a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua.

Trump has made masculinity a central theme of his campaign, appearing on podcasts targeting young male voters and tapping surrogates who sometimes use crude language.

Donald Trump’s sit-down in Austin on Friday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” underscores a central dynamic of the race for the former president: A November victory may hinge on low-propensity, MAGA-supporting men — who have found in Trump an outlet for the sidelining and disaffection they feel in the larger cultural milieu — actually voting.