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President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign appears to be getting by TikTok users, yet again.This time, TikTokers are encouraging fellow users to employ a tactic called “shopping cart abandonment” in which they go to the Trump 2020 campaign’s online store and fill up their cart with a whole bunch of merchandise they have no intention of purchasing.The goal is to leave the campaign’s online shopping data skewed. The use of “shopping cart abandonment” could also hurt its e-commerce business “signal[ing] a poor user experience or broken&nbsp;sales funnel.”People who left their digital shopping carts waiting for check-out over $4.6 trillion back in 2016.In one TikTok video that has over half a million likes, user @preveroni encourages others to fill up their carts with millions of dollars of merchandise, and then “just forget to come back to check-out.”It has yet to be seen if the trend has had a substantial impact on the campaign. The Daily Dot has reached out to the Trump campaign.This past week, TikTok teens and K-pop stans joined forces to leave the Trump campaign stunned at its Tulsa rally. The online army of zoomersREAD MORE:&nbsp;

President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign appears to be getting by TikTok users, yet again.This time, TikTokers are encouraging fellow users to employ a tactic called “shopping cart abandonment” in which they go to the Trump 2020 campaign’s online store and fill up their cart with a whole bunch of merchandise they have no intention of purchasing.The goal is to leave the campaign’s online shopping data skewed. The use of “shopping cart abandonment” could also hurt its e-commerce business “signal[ing] a poor user experience or broken&nbsp;sales funnel.”People who left their digital...

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