The Biden Campaign Wants to Reach Young Voters Through a Chinese Spyware App

Poll after poll after poll shows Joe Biden is, at best, in a dead heat with Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. In fact, going up against Trump is his best-case scenario. When matched up against other Republicans, Biden’s deficit is even wider. Even with third-party candidates in the field, Biden is losing to Trump right now.

The Biden team has determined, it seems, that they need to look at ways to reach out to young voters – one of the least consistent voting blocs out there – in order to make up those deficits. Their plan? Joining TikTok, an app that is documented at this point to be taking an insane amount of your personal information and is suspected to be a spyware app for the Chinese military.

Axios picked up the scoop on the Biden team’s plans.

Zoom in: So far, Biden’s campaign has tried to benefit from TikTok without joining it, by leaning on friendly social media influencers and having the Democratic National Committee on the platform.

• Prominent Democrats on TikTok include Govs. Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan), Gavin Newson (California) and Josh Shapiro (Pennsylvania), Sen. Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York).
• “I’m trying to reach everyone, wherever they are,” Shapiro told Axios. “And that’s why I said you have to be on every platform and engage with them on my administration’s work.”
• The DNC has said it takes precautions to protect its data by having dedicated devices for use on TikTok.

Of course, one of the Biden team’s problems right now is the fact that those friendly social media influencers are joining the other misinformed kids on TikTok in revolting against the Biden administration over its support of Israel.

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