Tim Walz and AOC play Madden on Twitch in try an enchantment to younger male voters

In an effort to safe extra help from male voters earlier than Election Day, vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., performed Madden NFL collectively on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

“Sundays are for soccer! Sport on, AOC,” Walz wrote in a publish on X.

The pair jumped on the streaming service Sunday afternoon, throughout NFL Sunday video games, to debate the upcoming election.

Ocasio-Cortez opened the session explaining that her and Walz agreed to do the live-stream a few weeks in the past when he expressed curiosity in doing a recreation stream together with her. They agreed to play Madden as a result of he was a soccer coach, and he was conversant in the sport, having performed it together with his kids up to now. 

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Gov. Tim Walz, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez performed a recreation of ‘Madden’ on Twitch in an try to enchantment to younger male voters. (Twitch)

Walz joined the stream after half-hour, carrying a camouflage Minnesota Vikings hat, previous to attending a marketing campaign rally in Nevada. 

The duo wasted no time in throwing jabs at former President Donald Trump and emphasised the significance of Democrats taking management of the Home and preserving majority management of the Senate.

“We don’t all share the identical politics, we don’t all share the identical views, however the necessity to defeat Trump this 12 months has been my primary precedence,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.

Through the live-stream, Walz advised Ocasio-Cortez that if he and Kamala Harris win the election, he would make her the Speaker of the Home. 

“We’re gonna win this election. We’re gonna make you set a gavel in your hand within the Home,” Walz advised Ocasio-Cortez

The 2 proceed to recreation and chat a couple of Harris-Walz administration, with Walz eluding that they’d get rid of the filibuster.

“The Senate has their very own issues. They’ve, kinda their ‘norms and their customs,’ however so as..” Ocasio-Cortez stated earlier than Walz cuts in.

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“Possibly, possibly, a few of these norms, I am simply gonna say I do not know the place you stand, however I am guessing you and I are in all probability the identical on the filibuster?” Walz asks.

“Oh yeah, we gotta eliminate that factor,” Ocasio-Cortez replies. 

The filibuster is a Senate rule that permits a minority to dam laws pending a supermajority vote.

Whereas Harris first stated she would help ending the filibuster to reinstate Roe v. Wade period abortion laws in 2022, she has since made abortion a serious concern in her Democratic bid for the presidency this election cycle. She additionally supported ending the filibuster to go the progressive Inexperienced New Deal local weather laws in 2019. 

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez additionally talked in regards to the significance of entry to Social Safety, bonding over their mutual losses of their dads after they have been youngsters.  

“Gov. Tim Walz and I each misplaced our dads after we have been youngsters. Lots of people don’t know that Social Safety additionally helps you for those who lose a partner (or mother or father, for those who’re a child). It’s so vital we defend and broaden it,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X following the reside stream.

Throughout a marketing campaign rally in North Carolina earlier this month, Walz claimed that his mom has to attend for her social safety examine each month to feed herself and that Trump and all his “wealthy buddies” do not care and even fear about Social Safety. 

“When my mother appears to be like for that Social Safety deposit to be made in her checking account, that is how she’s going to feed herself. That is how she’s going to get issues achieved. He [Trump] would not give a rattling if his Social Safety examine comes or not,” Walz claimed. 

Walz touted {that a} hundred million People beneath Kamala Harris as president would see a tax minimize.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez completed their recreation after enjoying one half. Walz performed for the Minnesota Vikings, whereas Ocasio-Cortez performed for the Buffalo Payments. The ultimate rating was 0-0. 

Walz then campaigned in Las Vegas. He attended a “Latinos con Harris-Walz” get-out-the-early-vote occasion and watch celebration for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas Metropolis Chiefs recreation with Congressman Steven Horsford and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez on Sunday afternoon.

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Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., joins Twitch live-stream to play a recreation of Madden, in opposition to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (X/@Tim_Walz)

The Harris-Walz marketing campaign stated they’ve positioned an emphasis on constructing a community of trusted allies to mobilize their male-driven audiences – together with a program referred to as, “Athletes for Harris,” which is co-chaired by NBA gamers Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, and former NBA legend Magic Johnson.

Throughout an interview with NBC Information final week, Harris dismissed her diminishing help amongst male voters who pressed her on why former President Donald Trump had a 16-point lead over the vice chairman in the important thing voting bloc. 

“Why do you assume there’s a disconnect for you with males proper now?” NBC’s Peter Alexander requested Harris throughout an interview in Michigan that aired on Saturday.

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An NBC ballot carried out in early October discovered that whereas Harris leads Trump amongst ladies voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads Harris 56% to 40% amongst male voters.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell additionally referred to as out Harris’ points with male voters throughout an look on NBC’s “Meet The Press” earlier this month.

Fox Information’ Hanna Panreck and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.