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Live updates: Harris holds rally in Texas with Beyoncé while Trump campaigns in Michigan
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Live updates: Harris holds rally in Texas with Beyoncé while Trump campaigns in Michigan

With the clock ticking until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are working to get voters to the polls.

Many Americans use social media to talk about politics, and there are some campaign-related moments that can rack up millions of views on platforms like TikTok.

Here are some of those viral moments of the week:

Trump serves fries at McDonald’s

The former president handed out fries at a McDonald’ franchise location in Pennsylvania this weekend. During the staged event, Trump donned an apron to work as a chip shop attendant and handed people food from the drive-thru, which was closed due to the campaign shutdown.

The event got people talking online. A video of the visit, posted to Trump’s TikTok account, has been viewed more than 41 million times and liked more than 4.6 million times.

The caption of the video read: “I’ve officially worked at McDonalds longer than Kamala.” Harris says she worked briefly at the chain in the summer of 1983, while she was still a student at Howard University in Washington, DC. “I’m really enjoying it all here,” Trump told people in a car as he hung food out of the drive-thru window.

The stop also fueled the late night shows. “The Daily Show” posted a clip on TikTok that has been viewed 3.5 million times, with host John Stewart mocking the former president.

Watch Trump’s McDonald’s moment below:

Coach Walz goes for a run

The Harris campaign has used social media to highlight aspects of Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s biography.

“Coach Walz here. Their game plan is called Project 2025,” Walz says in the TikTok video posted to his account, which has racked up up to 1 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

Standing near a white board in a baseball hat, Walz draws up plays and uses football terms to argue that voters should go to the polls to “play defense” and stop the 920-page document and associated proposals that Democrats warn that it will be implemented if Trump is elected, despite the former president’s attempts to distance himself from the document.

But Walz didn’t stop there. The vice presidential candidate has mentioned on the campaign trail that he is a runner, so he answered questions for popular social media influencer Kate Mackz along the way. Walz joined Mackz, who conducts interviews with runners, on Monday for a four-mile endurance run in New York City’s Central Park. Walz told the young audience watching the TikTok video — which has been viewed 3.8 million times — that they “need to go vote,” regardless of who they vote for.

From TikTok itself

While scrolling through their feed, some TikTok users may see an ad from the social media platform itself promoting the election center. The ad, which has more than 23,000 likes, tells users how to find the Elections Center in the app, including things like voting dates and how to check your registration.

Lawmakers have doubled down on their focus on TikTok this election year. President Joe Biden signed a bill in April that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States or force its sale, citing national security concerns because the social media platform’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in Beijing.

There are already indications of election influence on the platform. In September, TikTok said it had removed accounts linked to two Russian media groups for trying to exert so-called “covert influence” on the upcoming election.