Posted on 10/11/2019 9:12:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump recently joined the video streaming platform Twitch, live-streaming his Thursday night rally on the Amazon-owned site.
Presidential contenders and politicians have been using the platform over the past several months, live-streaming Q&As and informal conversations to audiences of tens of thousands.
Trump's Twitch account had nearly 47,000 followers as of Friday morning. The page indicates that his Minneapolis rally had more than 40,000 views as of Friday, and that his campaign plans to broadcast his rally next week in Dallas.
Trump also plans to hold a rally in Louisiana later on Friday.
The president is known for his prolific Twitter presence, but his aides have signaled in recent months that the president is looking to gain a foothold on other platforms as well.
The Trump campaign advertised heavily in social media platforms such as Facebook in 2016, a strategy it has continued into the 2020 race.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment on joining Twitch.
Trump is not the first presidential candidate to join the platform, which is popular among the gamer community but has niches for many interests, including politics. Democratic candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and entrepreneur Andrew Yang are also on Twitch.
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Never heard of you. I was responding to Sam Adams76.
Past Republicans sat on their butts until the last 2 months and then did RoboCalls.
No one answers Cell phones if you don’t know who they are.
Its funny that the GOP-e could have fixed the Spam Call problem back 20 years ago but they wanted to keep it for the RoboCall during elections.
“Again, there are no converts to be won on those sites. “
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Hi, SamAdams76!
I respectively disagree with your assumption.
That is the equivalent of telling someone to never speak of Jesus to the lost. Christians were all lost until they heard and listened; then, and only then, were they able to make the decision to accept or reject the Truth of Christ.
Many on the liberal sites have never actually heard unedited discussions/speeches from Pres Trump. These sites will afford them the opportunity to hear his speak. It may very well take several times and it may appear they are not taking in the words. If those folks who accepted Candidate Trump’s words as his promise for American hesitated to make bold moves, how much more oppressed would be those who are directly in the opposing camp?
Wherever Pres Trump is able to get his message is a good place. Even if it is only a few, those few one day may become great proponents for Pres Trump and encourage many from their side of the battlefield to listen to the man.
I was speaking of exclusively conservative sites - where we would only be preaching to the choir and thus not really winning any converts there. If you read my replies here in more detail, you will see that I am actually in agreement with you!
I read it.
I think, scratch that, I know I pinged the wrong person.
I am so very sorry!
I meant to address the person to whom you were speaking.
Please accept my apology.
Now I’ll go pull my foot out of my mouth... LOL
No worries!
PING
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