The Biden administration is turning to TikTok to appeal to younger voters,
but it's that strategy going well? I saw this article, I
kept thinking, wow. Okay. Your TikTokers, they're not exactly his age group. You know,
it's not exactly what. I think the problem that I saw here is there's no centralized messaging.
Right. That the Democrats have
lost their central, centralized messaging. And you had, you know, I, I think without that centralized
messaging right now, they're in trouble. They, they are absolutely. And you know,
they they've even brought in the people that are TikTok influencers.
Mm-hmm. They brought them into the White House
and actually had them help pitch the aid to Ukraine. You know, go, go.
Yeah. Go to TikTok.
Yeah. And get all this drummed up with Ukraine. And now
they're, you know, got, they've got these video clips of Biden, the massive CNN report on this
and they're sending 'em out to the same TikTok influencers saying, hey, this is a good way to,
you know. Yeah.
Spread this administration's talking points for us, which, look.
You're spreading to 15 year olds. 14 year olds. Certainly.
Yeah. No, I mean.
Nobody wants to watch the old man on TikTok talk about politics.
More importantly, nobody's in charge of the message. Used to be you'd have James
Carville and Begala, Belgala. They're kind of, they're kind of long in the tooth right now.
Yeah. So maybe that's where this is coming
from. As a matter of fact, what really concerns me is there's nobody at the top saying, you can't do
this in your messaging. I, I, I took a look at this story, a video of Tiara Mack, she, Rhode
Island state Senator twerking on, on TikTok and, and this thing goes viral. Well don't you call,
don't, I mean let's, let's show it. Let's show it. I mean, this. Okay. So she's twerking running for,
she's running for Senate, state Senate in Rhode Island. And she says, this is gonna have appeal
to my voters. But nobody calls her and says, you know, why can't we, why can't you just
get on our messaging? We have better messaging than this. And I think you're probably gonna do
better with our messaging. What do you think? Right. It, it's a party in total disarray and
that's why you have everybody, I guess, trying to go at their own, coming up with new, innovative
ways to reach voters, which. Is that innovative?
It's, look, it's certainly novel. I'll give her that. But the thing is, you're right.
We don't, who is the leader of the Democratic party right now?
Who makes the call to her and says, really? Do you have any idea what this is, this is all over
the world. This, this little twerk now is all over the world and she's running as a Democrat
in Rhode Island as a Senator. What do, what do you think the GOP does with that?
Right. It, it, it is absolutely red meat. And when, we've seen it, right? If you go to any,
you know, conservative news site, Fox news has had that clip on, you know, God knows how many times
in the last week and a half. Yeah.
Right wing news sites have it all over the place. And they're trying to paint this as
like, this is what. This is Democrat.
Your whole party is. No, no, this is Democrat.
Yeah. That's right. This is, this is part of that, that
Democrat notion of what America should look like. Well, well, and it's a lot of the same way that,
you know, the, the liberal sites do it with Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Of course, of course. So people do have to be
a little bit careful, you know, anything you do is gonna be used by the, the other side.
Mm-hmm. I mean, they used the
dance video from college that AOC did, which was totally harmless to attack her back then.
Yeah. So.
Yeah. I, I think we do need to be more.
Actually, I thought I was put a good video. It probably helped her get
elected. I don't know about that one though. But, but what we need is somebody at the top
of the Democratic party. Yeah.
To at least craft messaging and say, listen, here's our talking points.
A president sometimes does that too, right? Well, yeah. But, but again, I'll ask the question.
I don't know who's running the DNC right now? Yeah.
I, I truly do not. And I do this every single day. I don't know who's in charge.
Yeah. I don't know who is
calling the shots with this Biden administration. Let's, let's find it. Let's find that person and
then we do a show about it. Okay. I think we need to.
I, I'd like to be able to identify that person and say, yeah, that's the person that should
call this Senator who's twerking and say, you know, maybe that's not a good idea for our
messaging as a national organization. That's what I think. Farron, thank you for joining me. Okay.
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