How Barack Obama Is Encouraging People to Vote on TikTok
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The former president partnered up with popular TikTok creators to discuss the importance of voting.
Barack Obama came to a surprising place to urge more people to vote in the upcoming midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and that's TikTok.
The former president of the United States took to the popular streaming platform with a series of videos in which he and familiar TikTok creators talk about why people should go out and vote, tagged with #CreatorsForGood.
A few of the TikTokers he teamed up with include Mona Swain, @monaswain, Harry Sisson, @typical_democrat, Dr. Jennifer Lincoln, @drjenniferlincoln, Indiana Massara, @indiana, and V Spehar, @underthedesknews.
In a few of the videos, Obama joins TikTok trends while trying to give advice and impart knowledge to whoever tunes in.
In Swain's TikTok, she uses the popular audio of the song "Them Changes" by Thundercat, with an overlay of text on the screen that reads, "If I can't convince you to vote..."
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Then Obama appears in the clip, and the video states, "...maybe he can! GO VOTE!"
Massara did a similar video with the 44th president of the United States, before also posting a more relaxed conversation between herself and Obama about voting.
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In a video with Lincoln, who is an obstetrician-gynecologist and posts a lot of informative, factual videos about sexual and reproductive health and the ongoing political fight for reproductive rights, Obama talks about all of the young adults who will be able to vote for the first time in the midterm elections.
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He says to Lincoln, "There are eight million young people who are going to be newly eligible to vote in this election. We can reinstitute Roe v. Wade as law of the land, despite what the Supreme Court did."
In Sisson's video, Obama pops in to urge people to vote, and you can see how nervous the young man is to be interacting with the former president.
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Obama teamed up with IWillVote.com for this series of TikTok videos. The website provides all the information you need to know about voting, including your state's registration rules, your polling place, and who and what will be on the ballot.
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