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Live Updates: Harris hosts Texas rally with Beyoncé as Trump campaigns in Michigan


Live Updates: Harris hosts Texas rally with Beyoncé as Trump campaigns in Michigan

With time running out until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are working to get voters to the polls.

Many Americans use social media to talk about politics, and there are some election-related moments that can rack up millions of views on platforms like TikTok.

Here are some of those viral moments of the week:

Trump serves fries at McDonald's

The former president handed out french fries at a McDonald's franchise location in Pennsylvania over the weekend. At the staged event, Trump donned an apron to work as a roast attendant and handed people food from the drive-thru, which had been closed for the campaign stop.

The event caused a lot of conversation online. A video of the visit posted by Trump's TikTok account has received more than 41 million views and more than 4.6 million likes.

The video's caption read, “I've officially worked at McDonald's longer than I've worked at Kamala.” Harris says she briefly worked at the chain in the summer of 1983 while she was a student at Howard University in Washington, DC. “I’m all having a lot of fun here,” Trump told people in a car as he hung food from the drive-thru window.

The stop was also fuel for the late night shows. “The Daily Show” posted a clip on TikTok that garnered 3.5 million views in which host John Stewart mocked the former president.

Watch Trump's McDonald's moment below:

Coach Walz goes running

The Harris campaign is using social media to highlight aspects of Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz's biography.

“Coach Walz here. Your game plan is titled Project 2025,” Walz says in the TikTok video posted to his account, which garnered up to 1 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

Walz, standing at a whiteboard in a baseball cap, creates plays and uses football terms to argue that voters must go to the polls to “play defense” and stop the 920-page document and its proposals , which Democrats warn will be implemented if Trump is elected, despite the former president's efforts to distance himself from the document.

But Walz didn't stop there. The vice presidential candidate mentioned on the campaign trail that he's a runner, so he answered questions along the way with popular social media influencer Kate Mackz. Walz joined Mackz, who interviews runners, on a four-mile run in New York's Central Park on Monday. Walz told the young audience who watched the TikTok video — which has been viewed 3.8 million times — that they should “go out and vote,” regardless of who they vote for.

From TikTok itself

While scrolling through their feed, some TikTok users may see an ad from the social media platform itself promoting their voting center. The ad, which has more than 23,000 likes, tells users how to find the voting center in the app, including election dates and how to check their registration.

Lawmakers have doubled their focus on TikTok this election year. President Joe Biden signed a bill in April that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States or force its sale, citing national security concerns because the social media platform's parent company, ByteDance, is based in Beijing.

There is already some evidence of electoral influence on the platform. In September, TikTok said it had removed accounts linked to two Russian media groups for attempting to exert “covert influence” on the upcoming election.

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