How a Trump-brokered deal could 'save' TikTok as deadline looms on...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : "Trump - who led the original push to ban TikTok during his first term - said at a Monday press conference that he has a "warm spot in my heart" for TikTok and would "take a look" at the situation.
74% : That includes Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio, Under Secretary of State nominee Jacob Helberg, incoming US Ambassador to the United Nations Elise Stefanik and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
69% : "President Trump is a great negotiator.
58% : If Trump agrees that TikTok should remain online in the US and decides to get involved, a full divestiture is the only realistic path forward, according to Michael Sobolik, senior fellow at American Foreign Policy Council and author of "Countering China's Great Game.
54% : Soon after, Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
47% : In a last-ditch scramble to nix the law, ByteDance and TikTok have appealed to the Supreme Court - and cozied up to Trump in the hope that he can somehow intervene.
45% : Trump could push Congress to amend or reverse the law, but that could prove difficult given the overwhelming bipartisan support it received.
44% : "With Trump in office, it's a whole new ballgame to hold China accountable," Leamer said.
40% : Still, the looming deadline "creates a great opportunity for a win-win situation" if Trump can hammer out a deal, according to Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, which led the charge on the ban-or-sale bill.
38% : Aside from helping to negotiate a deal for TikTok, Trump is limited in what he can do to intervene.
35% : Details from the meeting have yet to emerge and it's unclear whether the talks between Trump and Chew yielded any progress toward a resolution.
32% : "Trump was the original champion for the TikTok ban, so it makes it difficult for his fellow Republicans to now have another opinion," one DC insider who requested anonymity said.
31% : It's possible that Trump will seek to use TikTok as a bargaining chip as part of broader negotiations with China, according to Nathan Leamer, a former FCC policy adviser and CEO of Fixed Gear Strategies.
23% : "Trump can get away with that, but they certainly can't."While softening his rhetoric toward TikTok, Trump has appointed several China hawks and outspoken TikTok critics to key Cabinet and government agency positions.

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