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原文地址：Obama makes TikTok appearances to push for voter registration: report
新闻日期：2024-09-17
美国前总统奥巴马将在TikTok上露面，推动选民登记：报道
据报道，为更好地与约30万潜在选民接触，民主党推出了一项非传统选民登记倡议。为此，奥巴马与25岁的TikTok网红及非营利组织负责人卡洛斯·埃斯皮纳进行了系列采访。
在这次活动中，奥巴马试图通过鼓励TikTok用户访问IWillVote.com进行注册，并为11月3日的大选做好准备。这一活动是民主党长期努力的一部分，旨在在美国一些关键摇摆州中进行线上和校园内的选民登记活动。
报道还提到，过去，奥巴马曾多次帮助拜登筹集资金，并与小捐助者党员合作。哈里斯的竞选团队也曾使用了部分奥巴马在民主全国代表大会上的演讲片段，在竞选视频中加以利用。
另外，报道还提到了有关TikTok的相关信息：今年，TikTok提交了一项法案，可能会将其从美国市场删除或要求其母公司字节跳动出售公司。
原文摘要：
Former President Obama will make appearances on TikTok to push for voter registration, a report says. As part of a broader Democratic initiative to reach approximately 30 million potential voters through non-traditional means on National Voter Registration Day, Obama conducted a series of interviews with 25-year-old TikTok influencer and non-profit director Carlos Espina for TikTok, Axios reported. Espina, who has 10.5 million followers on the Chinese-owned platform, has made appearances with President Biden and Vice President Harris on the app in recent months. Playing into the traditional Democratic advantage among young Americans under 30, Obama is trying to move the dial for Harris in encouraging TikTok viewers to visit IWillVote.com, register and make a plan for Election Day. The Harris-Walz campaign is also planning to target young Americans with voter registration initiatives online and on campuses in key battleground states for National Voter Registration Day, Axios reported. OBAMA’S HALF BROTHER RIPS BIDEN-HARRIS AGENDA WHILE HYPING SECOND TRUMP TERM: ‘WE’RE GOING TO WIN’ The Biden campaign and the Harris campaign afterward have called on Obama in the past to help raise money among wealthy donors and small-donor party activists. The Harris campaign also pulled a portion of Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention during which he used a suggestive hand gesture while discussing former President Trump’s “crowd sizes” to use in a recent campaign video. The voter registration push comes a day after attorneys for TikTok faced off with the U.S. government in federal court in Washington, D.C., arguing a law that could ban the platform in a few short months is unconstitutional, while the Justice Department said the app needed to eliminate a national security risk. Attorneys for both sides – and content creators – were pressed on their best arguments for and against the law that forces TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance to break ties by mid-January or lose one of their biggest markets in the world. Biden signed the measure in April as the culmination of a years-long saga in Washington over the short-form video-sharing app, which the U.S. government has said is collecting vast swaths of user data, including sensitive information on viewing habits, that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government. BIDEN CAMPAIGN TO STAY ON TIKTOK EVEN AFTER PRESIDENT SIGNS LAW TO FORCE SALE OR BAN APP IN US Officials have also warned the proprietary algorithm that fuels what users see on the app is vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authorities, who can use it to shape content in a way that is difficult to detect. Trump, who first raised national security concerns about TikTok in 2020, warned allies in March that now banning the platform would benefit Meta-owned Facebook, which Trump has claimed hampered his 2020 re-election bid. Biden’s campaign joined TikTok in February with a Superbowl-themed video. After Biden discontinued his re-election campaign in July, Harris took to TikTok stating, “Thought I would get on here myself.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Trump joined TikTok in June with a video showing him waving to fans at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight in Newark, New Jersey. UFC CEO Dana White declared “the president is now on TikTok,” to which Trump replied, “It’s my honor,” as the song “American Bad A–” by Kid Rock played. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
