Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez streamed themselves playing a football video game against each other Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party’s efforts to secure young votes just nine days before the elections to the White House.
during the current In their confrontation in the latest edition of the Madden game series, Ocasio-Cortez and Walz extolled the importance of regaining Democratic control of the US House of Representatives, maintaining the majority in the Senate and ensuring that Kamala Harris wins the election presidential elections on November 5 against Donald Trump.
“We don’t all share the same politics, we don’t all share the same views, but the need to defeat Trump this year has been my number one priority,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
He echoed others who have called Trump a would-be authoritarian and fascist ruler supported by special interests who are exacerbating the current climate crisis. He also talked about how the billionaire owners of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post prevented their editorial teams from endorsing Harris over Trump, calling it “a moment to take off the mask of plutocracy.””.
Ocasio-Cortez said she spoke to Walz a couple of weeks earlier when he expressed interest in broadcasting a game with her. They agreed to play Madden because he was a football coach and was familiar with the series because he had played it with his sons.
Walz attended the broadcast ahead of a campaign rally in Nevada, and tuned in around 3:30 p.m. ET before detailing a history of gaming dating back to the original Pac Man, which hit theaters. of games in the 1980s. He played with the Minnesota Vikings and Ocasio-Cortez. with the Buffalo Bills before about 12,000 users.
Walz, the governor of Minnesota, and Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitch after a recent NBC news story. survey found that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a two percentage point lead over Donald Trump among registered young male voters.
Despite the advantage, Democrats have performed better among the demographic in previous election cycles, raising concerns among the party. And on Friday, the Trump campaign apparently attempted to raise concerns, as the former president spend three hours on Joe Rogan’s podcast, whose audience is predominantly young men and whose show often tops global charts on both Apple and Spotify.
At one point it was rumored that Harris appeared with Rogan, but the meeting never materialized. And instead, it was Trump who took the floor to defend the replacement of the income tax with tariffs and remember the “genius” of Robert E Lee, the Confederate military general who owned slaves and commanded the white supremacist, losing side of the Civil War. US.
Sunday’s event with Ocasio-Cortez came after her first appearance on the Twitch platform in 2020 was one of the most viewed events on the platform at that time. Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks later.
Sunday’s session also came after Harris campaigned in early October. broadcast live a Walz rally on Twitch alongside live gameplay of the World of Warcraft game.
Another Harris campaign strategy aimed at supporting young men has been focused on a series of ads on sports betting platform DraftKings, Yahoo Sports and on websites such as IGN (short for Imagine Games Network) and Fandom.
