president biden Posted on TikTok Sunday’s first Super Bowl-themed question-and-answer session hinted at the possibility of boosting youth voting in his re-election campaign.
The 30-second video showed Biden watching the Super Bowl from home and lazily writing out a list of questions about the game. The caption jokingly read, “LOL, everyone.”
After being rapidly reprimanded by his staff, he refused to choose between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, instead pledging allegiance to the first lady’s Philadelphia Eagles.
Biden also laughed off a question about whether he would vote for himself or former President Donald Trump. Naturally, he chose himself.
More than a dozen Democrats use TikTok, but the platform has come under fire from Republicans. Congress has criticized the app’s parent company, ByteDance, for possible ties to the Chinese government.
The White House has used TikTok before, but never directly, making it available to creators to spread messages about COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, and the White House itself using TikTok to spread messages about the coronavirus and the war in Ukraine. I have even accepted.
The Biden campaign’s launch on the app could signal an effort to win over young voters, the app’s largest audience.
Her primary Republican rival, Nikki Haley, has publicly called on the U.S. government to ban the app, citing mental health risks to young people and concerns about Chinese government influence.
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