Biden staff seeks to affect the influencers

NEWS AND OPINION:

Forget the usual enter from public relations professionals, pollsters and publicity counselors because the 2024 presidential race looms on the horizon. President Biden will rely as a substitute on the savvy contributors to such websites as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to craft efficient messages to the general public, in keeping with one new report.

“Biden’s digital strategy: an army of influencers,” Axios stated in an evaluation launched Monday.

“President Biden’s not-yet-official bid for re-election will lean on hundreds of social media ‘influencers’ who will tout Biden’s record — and soon may have their own briefing room at the White House,” Axios stated.

Yes, their very own briefing room.

“The move aims to boost Biden’s standing among young voters who are crucial to Democrats’ success in elections — and to potentially counter former President Trump’s massive social media following, if he’s the GOP nominee in 2024,” the information group stated.

The chance itself generated appreciable protection.

“Biden will be enlisting hundreds of TikTok stars and social media influencers to push his propaganda out to young people. Silly us, we thought he was busy working to ban TikTok since it’s a security threat and stuff — but apparently President Silver Alert discovered he may want to use the platform to indoctrinate young people into voting away their lives and money to support him,” quipped Twitchy.com.

“Democrats love their uninformed, angry, emotionally thin-skinned voters. Keep in mind, they’ve been pushing to lower the voting age to 16, probably because it’s easier to sucker young people who aren’t already getting taxed to death to keep them in power,” Twitchy stated.

Reaction continued.

“Joe Biden is planning to recruit an army of TikTok influencers to help burnish his 2024 re-election hopes by pushing what he claims are his administration’s successes,” the Daily Mail proclaimed.

“The move is part of a strategy to coalesce influencers and reach a younger demographic that may not be tapped into mainstream news or follow the White House on social media,” suggested Business Insider.

The influencer search is already underway, nevertheless.

“When President Biden hosted a celebration with lawmakers on the South Lawn to mark the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats’ signature spending package, a unique group of guests joined them,” National Public Radio stated in an Oct. 9 report.

“More than 20 influencers — content creators with devoted followers on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube — received special invitations. It’s part of a White House strategy to reach younger people where they are — which often is scrolling on a device,” the report stated.

THAT’S THE TICKET

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a busy man. On Friday, he’ll journey to New Hampshire to headline the Amos Tuck Dinner in Manchester — organized by the Granite State’s Republican Party and named for Amos Tuck, a Nineteenth-century congressman who based the state’s Republican Party in 1853.

So it’s a dinner of notice.

But unfounded rumors have popped up within the media currently suggesting that the massive occasion might be a flop. Not so, say the organizers.

“Reports from national political outlets that the party is struggling to sell tickets to the Amos Tuck fundraising dinner featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis simply are not true,” Chris Ager, chairman of the New Hampshire GOP, tells Michael Graham, an analyst for the New Hampshire Journal.

“We will have a full house on Friday. Ticket sales are right where we predicted they’d be. And that’s very good news for our party. We are looking for a record breaking event,” Mr. Ager informed the information group.

Mr. DeSantis then heads south.

“DeSantis has scheduled his first South Carolina stop for April 19 in the state’s GOP vote-rich upstate region. What will his message be? In a speech last week in Pennsylvania, DeSantis said he is focused on winning. ‘There’s no substitute for victory,’ he said. ‘The winners get to make policy. The losers go home,’” Mr. Graham wrote.

YOUNG REPUBLICANS AT WORK

The New York Young Republicans Club continues to set an instance as a feisty presence on the political stage — most just lately organizing a peaceable demonstration of help for former President Donald Trump throughout his look in a New York City courtroom.

The membership’s subsequent occasion can also be of notice.

Newsmax prime-time host and writer Greg Kelly and 2022 Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake will share the stage at a non-public location in Manhattan.

Mr. Kelly is a “television personality, radio host, journalist and military veteran,” the membership stated in an advance discover for the occasion, which takes place April 29.

He can also be the son of former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and the writer of “Justice for All: How the Left Is Wrong About Law Enforcement.” The guide was revealed on Jan. 23 by Simon & Schuster and deemed a “stirring defense of American law enforcement” by the writer.

And Ms. Lake?

“Dubbed ‘Trump in Heels’ by the media, she led the largest political movement in Arizona history. Her movement may have started in the Grand Canyon State, but it has now spread across the entire country,” the membership famous within the aforementioned discover.

POLL DU JOUR

• 72% of U.S. adults are “very concerned” concerning the value of meals and client items; 78% of Republicans and 66% of Democrats agree.

• 61% of U.S. adults general are “very concerned” about the price of housing; 58% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats agree.

• 36% of U.S. adults are “very concerned” concerning the stability of banks and monetary establishments; 43% of Republicans and 31% of Democrats agree.

• 27% of U.S. adults are “very concerned” about individuals who need to work being unable to seek out jobs; 22% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats agree.

• 24% of U.S. adults are “very concerned” about how the inventory market is doing; 31% of Republicans and 18% of Democrats agree.

SOURCE: A Pew Research Center survey of 5,079 U.S. adults performed March 27-April 2.