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Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee for 2020, had not made much use of social media in the past, but used portions of his campaign budget to run advertising on certain platforms, most notably Facebook, where he is estimated to have spent up to $1.6 million on advertising leading up to the California Democratic primary. [13]
The effects of social media scandals can be seen in the polarization of the country on this issue. 90% of Democrats were reported to have no confidence in Trump's ability to handle the investigation of Russia effectively, whereas only 23% of Republicans were reported to have no confidence in his ability to do so. [66]
The Democratic Party’s approach to media engagement, or lack thereof, represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern voters consume and process information.
In June 2017, Democratic US representative Mike Quigley filed legislation in the United States House of Representatives, titled the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Act (H.R. 2883), to Presidential Records Act to cover social media, thus requiring tweets and other social media posts by the US president ...
And while some people on social media joke that their votes will “cancel out” the votes of their parents or even partners, others have expressed concern their spouse may find out who they vote ...
Despite that, people are expressing less trust in their government and others due to media use- therefore, social media directly affects trust in media use. It is proven that while reading newspapers, there is an increase in social trust, on the contrary,y, watching the news on television weakens trust in others and news sources. [ 20 ]
President-elect Donald Trump doubled his support among black men from last cycle while amassing the largest percentage of nonwhite voters for a Republican presidential hopeful since Richard Nixon.
At the exit polls on election day (6 November) 69% of the people who voted reportedly used social media to promote the fact that they voted at the 2012 presidential campaign. [11] This statistic means a lot more when looking back at the percentage of adults that utilised social media in the 2008 US presidential election which was 37%. [6]