Tik­Tok bill tests Biden’s rela­tion­ship with young peo­ple who ‘don’t feel a con­nec­tion’

Pro-Pales­tin­ian and pro-Gaza pro­test­ers inter­rupt­ing Pres­i­dent Joe Biden‘s pub­lic appear­ances have served as a reminder of his poten­tial polit­i­cal prob­lems with young peo­ple this elec­tion cycle.
But a pos­si­ble upheaval of Tik­Tok is the lat­est polit­i­cal devel­op­ment that could upend 81-year-old Biden’s appeals to the demo­graph­ic before Novem­ber.
Young people’s polit­i­cal pow­er as a vot­ing bloc has his­tor­i­cal­ly been down­played because of a ten­den­cy not to turn out com­pared to oth­er demo­graph­ics, but not this year, accord­ing to poll­ster David Pale­ol­o­gos. That is because it is the one demo­graph­ic, defined as peo­ple aged 18–34, or mem­bers of Gen­er­a­tion Z and younger mil­len­ni­als, that is “dra­mat­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent” in recent polls in con­trast to pre­vi­ous elec­tion sea­sons, said Pale­ol­o­gos, Suf­folk University’s Polit­i­cal Research Cen­ter direc­tor.
“In 2016, Hillary Clin­ton lost the Elec­toral Col­lege but won young vot­ers by 19 [per­cent­age] points,” Pale­ol­o­gos told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. “In 2020, Joe Biden won young vot­ers by 24 points. In today’s polling, if the …