{"id":1713910,"date":"2022-10-27T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713910"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:33:43","slug":"as-inflation-soars-and-crime-spikes-biden-meets-with-tiktok-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-inflation-soars-and-crime-spikes-biden-meets-with-tiktok-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"As Inflation Soars and Crime Spikes, Biden Meets With TikTok \u2018Celebrities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-inflation-soars-and-crime-spikes-biden-meets-with-tiktok-celebrities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The DNC treats users of Chinese spyware app to all-expenses-paid DC trip, reports Washington Post TikTok correspondent<\/p>\n<p>    President Joe Biden takes a selfie at DNC headquarters \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-staff\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Staff\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Staff<\/a> \u2022 October 27, 2022 4:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden met with eight users of the social media app TikTok as part of an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., arranged by the Democratic National Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/27\/tiktok-democrats-influencers-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Washington Post TikTok correspondent Taylor Lorenz.<\/p>\n<p>Biden on Tuesday had &#8220;an\u00a0hour-long private meeting&#8221;\u00a0with the TikTokers, whom the DNC brought to the nation&#8217;s capital &#8220;in hopes that their posts will turn out votes for Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterms,&#8221; which are widely expected to be a Republican wave. The TikTokers also met with former president Barack Obama and toured the Supreme Court and the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The DNC&#8217;s trip for TikTokers comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-is-now-licking-ice-cream-on-a-times-square-billboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation<\/a> reaches unprecedented levels and crime rates rise across the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surging<\/a> 15.2 percent in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes as Democrats reorient their party to prioritize the wants of wealthy, elite young people. The Biden administration in August went through with a potentially trillion-dollar scheme to cancel college debt, which has already hiked the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/us-deficit-soars-562-percent-thanks-to-bidens-student-debt-forgiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal deficit<\/a>. The Democratic Party also disproportionately prefers hiring white, elite college graduates even as it hemorrhages minority voters, the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/systemic-racism-democrats-prefer-hiring-elite-white-college-graduates-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All the TikTokers Lorenz mentions by name are white, and all but one are under 30.<\/p>\n<p>While many of the TikTok users &#8220;had previously been largely apolitical, encouraging their fans to vote but not explicitly backing parties or candidates,&#8221; the DNC did not sugarcoat its objective.<\/p>\n<p>The committee hosted a kickoff dinner where conversation &#8220;focused on issues like reproductive rights and strategizing how to best leverage [the TikTokers&#8217;] audiences for the midterms.&#8221; At the TikTokers&#8217; meeting with Obama, the former president was even blunter, &#8220;calling a Democratic victory in November crucial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mattie Westbrouck, 22, even implied that the DNC had identified specific congressional districts for the TikTokers to target in their videos. &#8220;The Michigan third district was really important,&#8221; Westbrouck said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to try to promote content to reach those voters best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lorenz, who is best known for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/journalist-mocked-after-22-avocado-toast-purchase-backfires-pull-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whining<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-meme-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obsessing over a 15-year-old girl&#8217;s social media feed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/times-square-billboard-exposes-taylor-lorenz-for-doxxing-libs-of-tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doxxing an anonymous Twitter user<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/taylor-lorenz-vaccine-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly lashing out at colleagues<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/happy-birthday-taylor-lorenz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implying that she lies about her age for attention<\/a>, noted that Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden met with eight users of the social media app TikTok as part of an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., arranged by the Democratic National Committee, according to Washington Post TikTok correspondent Taylor Lorenz.<br \/>\nThe post As Inflation Soars and Crime Spikes, Biden Meets With TikTok \u2018Celebrities\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1713918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}