Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined TikTok on Wednesday, making him the latest politician to join the viral platform.
The move by Buttigieg comes after former President Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) have all created accounts, likely in a bid to win over younger voters. As of Wednesday afternoon, the transportation secretary, who also promoted his migration to TikTok on X, has 180,000 followers on the video platform.
“I’m Pete Buttigieg. You might recognize me from Fox News,” Buttigieg jokes in his first video. “Now I’m on TikTok. Obviously.”
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Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed a bill that required TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or risk getting banned in
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