VIce President Kamala Harris – the current presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden dropped out of the race – joined the TikTok app on July 25 and is already making an impression.
Having uploaded four videos so far, Harris has racked up 7 million likes and 2.7 million followers at the time of publishing. The latest of these videos includes Harris with Lance Bass of the boy band NSYNC.
Bass looks into the camera and says, “Hey, Kamala. What will we say to Donald Trump in November?” He then turns to Harris, standing next to him. “Bye, bye, bye,” she says, then laughs. Cue the music: the song “Bye Bye Bye,” which NSYNC released in 2000.
The caption of the post quotes another lyric from the song: “Ain’t no lie”.
Harris, 59, joined Bass, 45, on the drag reality show All the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race, urging Americans to vote. The appearance aired in the US on Friday, but was recorded a few weeks before President Biden has dropped his bid for re-election. One of Harris’ other TikTok videos chronicles her visit to the show.
“Hi everyone. It’s Kamala Harris,” she said on the show. “Every day, we see our rights and freedoms under attack, including everyone’s right to be who they are, to love who they love – openly and proudly.”
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Included in the video is Bass, drag racing judge Michelle Visage and choreographer Jamal Sims, along with actors Cheyenne Jackson and Leslie Jones.
This is just the latest step in Harris’ campaign strategy of actively embracing younger voters, much like the memes that have surrounded Harris since Biden endorsed her. Harris references memes in her first video, where she says, “I heard recently that I was on the ‘For You’ page, so I thought I’d pop in here myself.”
These memes include references to Charli XCX’s “Brat” album — started after the British pop star tweeted “kamala is a brat,” and mining some of its most embarrassing moments as senator and vice president.
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