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Donald Trump joins TikTok, rapidly wins a million followers

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Within hours of joining TikTok, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had attracted a million followers on Sunday on the short video social media platform that he tried to ban as president on national security grounds.

The decision to join the platform will help the former president reach younger voters in his third bid for the White House. He is in a close race with Democratic incumbent Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Biden's election campaign is already on TikTok, although Biden has signed a bill that would

, which is used by 170 million Americans, if its Chinese owner ByteDance fails to divest it.