The risk for President Biden is less that young left-of-center voters will vote Republican and more that they would sit out an election they see as uninspiring altogether.
if ByteDance doesn't sell its stake in the app, according to a Wall Street Journal report this month.
Biden administration officials insist that political concerns aren’t weighing into the national security review underway, but they’re also not blind to it. But it’s clear that the Biden White House and his likely reelection campaign are keenly aware of the app’s massive domestic reach and demographic skew toward Democratic-leaning younger voters.
In interviews at Arizona State, one of the largest college campuses in the U.S. and a contributor to Biden's narrow 10,000-vote win in the swing state, young people described a TikTok ban as somewhere between an annoyance and an inevitability — but not something that would change their views of the president.
“It's not really Biden's issue,” said Ginny Xu, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student from Goodyear, Arizona. “It's more of a bipartisan thing — ‘safety’ from China." The young have never voted at the same rates as their parents and grandparents, but their participation has ticked up markedly since the start of the Trump presidency.
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