The Biden campaign Monday joined Truth Social, the platform founded by former President Trump, pushing its message on a platform largely dominated by the former president and his followers.
“Well. Let’s see how this goes. Converts welcome!” the campaign wrote in its first post on the platform under the handle @BidenHQ.
The campaign followed up with another post that featured a video clip of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) criticizing Trump’s record on the national debt.
“A thing about campaigns is sometimes you just do things for the lolz,” Rob Flaherty, a deputy Biden campaign manager, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of the decision to join Truth Social.
Fox News first reported that the Biden campaign would join Truth Social, which Trump founded in 2021 and launched in 2022 after he was suspended from what was then Twitter and other major social media platforms following the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
Trump has since posted almost exclusively on Truth Social. He has more than 6 million followers on the platform, which is a fraction of the roughly 87 million he has on X.
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