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Jamaal Bowman, a progressive New York Democrat popular on the left, held a news conference this past week with TikTok creators who have built popular and profitable channels on the social network “in support of free expression.” In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo offered hyperbolically, “The politician in me thinks you’re going to literally lose every voter under 35, forever.”īut it’s clear that the Biden White House and his likely reelection campaign are keenly aware of the app’s massive domestic reach and demographic skew toward Democratic-leaning younger voters. Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020, but the move was blocked in court and later rescinded when Biden took office and ordered an in-depth study of the issue.īyteDance says it’s working to address security concerns and has plans to route traffic through servers owned by Oracle, a Silicon Valley-based tech company.īiden administration officials insist that political concerns aren’t weighing into the national security review underway, but they’re also not blind to it.īoth political parties have reoriented around staking out tougher economic and security positions on China’s rise, and Biden has come under increasing pressure from GOP lawmakers to take action against TikTok. Committee on Foreign Investment, part of Biden’s Treasury Department, has threatened to ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake in the app, according to a Wall Street Journal report this month. and other nations have banned TikTok from government-owned devices, as have several states. Western governments are growing increasingly worried that TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance, might give browsing history or other data about users to China’s government or promote propaganda and disinformation. It’s become a supremely popular - some say addictive - place for young people to find entertainment and community. Its algorithm has an uncanny ability to figure out what interests its users and serve up videos they’ll enjoy.
TikTok allows users, 150 million of whom are in the United States, to post short, creative videos for friends and strangers. “He’s maybe capable of doing a good job, but he’s not capable of gathering the troops, rallying the people. “I’m a Democrat, but I’m not voting for Biden,” said Mark Buehlmann, a 20-year-old Arizona State University student who said he likely would abstain if Biden is the Democratic nominee, as expected. The risk for Biden is less that young left-of-center voters will vote Republican and more that they would sit out an uninspiring election altogether. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary campaign in 2020. The effort, announced shortly before last year’s midterms, was an attempt by Biden to keep a promise he made after defeating progressive Sen. Meanwhile, his plan to wipe out billions of dollars in student loan debt is in jeopardy at the Supreme Court. As Biden gears up for an expected reelection campaign, a potential TikTok ban and the Alaska drilling could weigh him down.
But the 80-year-old president has never been the favorite candidate of young liberals itching for a new generation of American leadership.
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