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Listen • 4:41 Trying to engage a younger audience, state legislators like Christina Haswood and Andrew McDaniel are reaching out to constituents using TikTok. TikTok occupies a weird corner of the internet, sparking short-lived trends like dancing to a voicemail from a toxic ex or the Step Chickens Cult. The social media app also has occupied the minds of President Donald Trump, who tried to ban it, and Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who sponsored a bill to prohibit workers from having TikTok on government devices. And while long-established politicians aren’t too k...

High school senior Conner Thrash heard about Haswood’s campaign — even though he lives about three hours away in Concordia — and reached out to her to ask if he could help. “She had the capabilities, she just needed, like, a teenager to get her onto the trendy side of TikTok,” Thrash said. As the TikTok manager, Thrash kept tabs on popular trends. “I'll be like, ‘OK, think Connor. How can you make this political?’” he said, “‘and how can you keep it like PG?’” Enter a deep house remix of Taylor Swift’s “Love Song.” The trend — way back in July — was to have...