Will Biden lose his chance to be president again by banning TikTok?

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives approved a plan that, if passed by the Senate and then signed by the president, could lead to banning the use of the Tik Tok social network in this country.

According to Reuters, if Biden wants to fulfill his promise to sign the Tik Tok ban, he will probably lose a large part of the people’s votes in the upcoming elections and will face a serious challenge for the presidency again.

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Political strategists say that the majority of users of the Tik Tok social network are inclined towards the Democratic Party. A study published in 2023 by the Pew Research Center shows that 60% of people who regularly follow the content published on Tik Tok tend towards the Democratic Party (Biden’s Party). It is said that 19% of Tiktok’s regular users in America are black and 30% are Hispanic. The social network is also very popular among the younger demographic (which often leans toward Democrats); So that it is said that 44 percent of people who receive news from Tik Tok are between 18 and 29 years old.

Samuel Wooley, a professor of journalism and director of advertising at the University of Texas, says that banning TikTok actually destroys the ability of voters to communicate with the Democratic Party.

However, a senior White House official has said that he is not worried about the effect of the ban on Biden’s re-election. Another White House official also said it was a matter of “national security” and that it was more important than other people’s feelings. This official, whose name was not mentioned, stated: “The president does not make decisions about national security based on the opinions of users and their happiness and unhappiness.”

It should be said that the headquarters of the “Byte Dance” company, which is considered the owner of TikTok, is located in Beijing, which is why the United States claims that the Chinese government has access to the data of this social network. TikTok had previously said that it considered the security of the data of American users and blocked the access to the data of the Byte Dance company in Beijing.

Washington did not accept these statements and had already announced that the use of TikTok is prohibited for government employees.