A select cohort of Democratic representatives are using TikTok to build their brands, share dumb memes, and defend the app against an impending ban.
With calls for a national ban against TikTok growing more and more common by the week, particularly in Congress, it’s never been a tougher time to be a lawmaker publicly supporting the app. Still, a vocal minority of House and Senate Democrats—no Republicans— are defying those calls and doing so on the platform despite recent federal laws barring the app on government devices.
The few politicians willing to stick their necks out on the short-form video app overwhelmingly come from one party . Gizmodo could not find any official TikTok accounts associated with Republican lawmakers. Only a handful of the roughly two dozen Democrats on TikTok have made a point to actually publicly weigh in on the ban.
