As Other GOP Candidates Join Vine, Donald Trump Ignores His Big Advantage on the App

He's been silent, despite 7.5 million views

Sometime after last night's Republican debate for the presidential nomination, Jeb Bush and John Kasich joined the mobile video app Vine. It's popular with young voters—and other candidates like Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are on it—so why not?

But GOP front runner Donald Trump is taking a much different approach, ignoring a considerable audience that he built up in 2013. The former Celebrity Apprentice star was killing it on Vine compared to his competitors—including Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders—back then, with 73,000 followers and 7.5

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