Semafor: “TikTok was already considered relatively hostile territory before the president signed a bill that would force the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell it or face a national ban; TikTok officials said that since November, there’s been twice as much pro-Trump content as pro-Biden content on the platform.”
Said TikTok creator Harry Sisson on young liberals turning away from Joe Biden: “I gotta be honest, it doesn’t feel good.
Jeff Gunter, who is running against Sam Brown for the GOP nomination in Nevada to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen, is going to war with the NRSC following Donald Trump’s endorsement of Brown, Politico reports.
Devex: “More than three and a half years into his term, Biden has earned the curious distinction of being the first U. S. president since the U. N.’s founding in San Francisco in 1945 not to invite at least one sitting U. N. secretary-general to the White House.”
“Donald Trump’s proposal to make workers’ tips nontaxable introduces an untested idea to raise take-home pay that would encourage businesses and employees to recharacterize taxed wages as untaxed tips,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Such a move could further complicate Americans’ messy relationships with tips, which have spread to new corners of the economy in recent years even as consumers express growing exasperation with requests for voluntary payments on top of prices.”
Wall Street Journal: “In an unusual break from the predictable, reflexive battles between the American left and right, prominent gun rights advocates are now rallying around Hunter Biden, whose trial has run several days, with closing arguments taking place Monday. Though they view his father as one of the biggest threats to the Second Amendment, they are standing behind his son on principle.”