Social media influencers who have backed President Biden said they are losing thousands of followers over backlash to his policies and his attacks on Donald Trump — with many vowing they won’t vote for him. Jae Gurley, a 24-year-old black transgender fashion creator with more than 1.7 million TikTok followers, told the Washington Post on Friday that she was turned off by the Biden campaign’s negative messaging.
“You don’t need to tell me how bad Trump is. I know that, you don’t think I know that?” she told the publication on Friday. “You need to tell me how great you are, so I can go and convince other people to, because people my age do not want to vote for you.
” The anti-Biden sentiment among younger voters is the latest headache for the president’s campaign , which has been thrown into turmoil following his disastrous debate performance as well as lingering doubts about his cognitive fitness and stamina. Months before Biden’s debate debacle, Gurley was among a handful of social media influencers invited by the president’s granddaughter Finnegan Biden for a roundtable discussion on how to reach Gen Z voters. The meeting, held in Manhattan on March 28, reportedly grew tense after some of the influencers criticized the president for signing a law that potentially bans TikTok in the US and his support for Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip to root out Hamas terrorists.
Gurley said that before the meeting she posted a “get ready with me” v.
