TIKTOK: Trump Campaign Beats Biden At His Own Game… The Numbers Don’t Lie

Whatever eventually becomes of TikTok, we can say for sure that nothing changes until AFTER November. So why would Trump choolse to fight with one hand behind his back?

Joe Biden has been looking for every possible way to leverage the massive influence of TikTok on young voters. Recent pressure campaigns launched by TikTok to save its own skin and *strongly* encourage users to lobby their politicians on TikTok’s behalf are evidence enough of the potential for moving the needle politically.

On top of that, Biden has been working very closely with a varitey of influencers in TikTok and other social media platforms, often paying them to spout talking points without specifically acknowledging that those talking points were backed by campaign dollars. They were recently ‘outed’ for how far they went in trying to shape the word-for-word articulation of a very specific political position as though it had sprung naturally from their own mind and heart.

The close coordination of the DOJ and state law enforcement has shown they will stop at nothing to secure power. Trupm has responded by launching a TikTok account. It went live over the weekend. To say it is doing well is — kind of an understatement.

For comparison — Joe Biden’s TikTok account has been up and running gor a long time… AND he has been coordinating with other accounts. You’d expect him to have a big following by now, right? And he does. Mostly.

But at a moment when you are in a politcal campaign, the absolute number is not what would interest the public, so much as the relative number when compared to an opponent.

Roughly a day since joining TikTok, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had attracted 3 million followers on the short video social media platform that he tried to ban as president on national security grounds.

The decision to join the platform on Saturday could help the former president reach younger voters in his third bid for the White House. He is in a close race with Democratic incumbent Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election.
Biden’s election campaign is already on TikTok, with over 340,000 followers, although Biden has signed a bill that would ban the app, which is used by 170 million Americans, if its Chinese owner ByteDance fails to divest it.
Trump posted a launch video on his account, which has the address @realdonaldtrump, on Saturday night. The video, which has more than 56 million views, showed Trump greeting fans at an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Newark, New Jersey.
Trump said a statement he would “use every tool available to speak directly with the American people…” — Reuters

Joe has had his account for years, is the incumbent President, and routinely ingratiates himself to ‘infuenencers’. He is sitting at 340,000 followers.

Trump launched his on Saturday… and he’s sitting at nearly 10 times that. (At last count.)

Interesting, isn’t it?

Let’s not take anything for granted, or assume there’s a Red Wave waiting to happen. It will only happen if we will ourselves over that finish line. But it’s in interesting factoid.