washington <u+2014> barack obama , the first commander in chief to regularly send emails and to use twitter and facebook, has added another breakthrough to his technological legacy: first president of the united states to use snapchat. he recently took time out from a packed schedule of campaign events for hillary clinton to record an interview for snapchat, part of a push to galvanize support for mrs. clinton among millennials. the result resembles nothing so much as an advertisement for mrs. clinton, targeted at the young people whose enthusiastic backing propelled mr. obama to office but whose enthusiasm for his chosen successor has been more tempered. democratic strategists have worried that younger voters, turned off by the bitter tenor of the race and more challenging than older voters to turn out even in the best of times, may not bother to vote for her. <u+201c>she<u+2019>s fought on behalf of people who really need somebody to fight for them <u+2014> that should be inspiring enough,<u+201d> mr. obama told peter hamby, the host of snapchat<u+2019>s political show, <u+201c>good luck america.<u+201d> (the show is accessible through the snapchat discover section, which will make the episode featuring mr. obama available for 48 hours, beginning at 6 a.m. eastern time on tuesday.) the five-minute episode intersperses behind-the-scenes glimpses of mr. obama on the campaign trail narrated by mr. hamby <u+2014> a ride in a motorcade to a campaign rally, the president backstage greeting a woman who had introduced him and autographing her opening remarks <u+2014> with mr. obama<u+2019>s testimonials about mrs. clinton. <u+201c>hillary may be in a position to negotiate with certain members of the republican congress, as she has done in the past, on some basic things like rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our airports that in the past weren<u+2019>t really republican or democrat,<u+201d> mr. obama said when asked what mrs. clinton could do better than he had. at one point, mrs. clinton<u+2019>s disembodied head appears against an outer space backdrop, shooting missiles, video game-style, at the head of donald j. trump above the caption <u+201c>barack obama defender.<u+201d> snapchat, whose political show had its debut in january, says that it has more than 60 million daily active users in the united states and canada and that, on any given day, it reaches 41 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds. that makes it a useful outlet for reaching a demographic that is much harder to connect with through traditional media outlets like newspapers and television. mr. obama<u+2019>s first tutorial on snapchat came from his 15-year-old daughter, sasha, who surreptitiously recorded him expounding to the whole family at the dinner table on the platform<u+2019>s significance in modern society. she later sent the exchange to friends via snapchat, mr. obama told jimmy kimmel during an interview last week. she captioned it, <u+201c>this is my dad lecturing us on the meaning of social media,<u+201d> followed by a picture of her bored face. the segment to be released on tuesday ends with mr. hamby, who declares that the president <u+201c>gets it<u+201d> when it comes to social media, showing mr. obama how to do his own messaging on snapchat. <u+201c>people, this is barack obama,<u+201d> the president says, his head filling the screen, selfie-style. <u+201c>if i can figure out how to snapchat, you can figure out how to go vote.<u+201d> correction: october 31, 2016 an earlier version of this article cited incorrect information provided by snap inc. on the number of daily active users the service has in the united states. there are 60 million such users in the united states and canada, not in the united states alone, according to corrected data from the company. a version of this article appears in print on november 1, 2016, on page a15 of the new york edition with the headline: obama<u+2019>s snapchat push for clinton aims to last. order reprints | today's paper | subscribe
promoting clinton, obama is a snapchat rarity: he hopes his message lasts
julie hirschfeld davis