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Tim Walz and AOC are playing Madden on Twitch in an attempt to appeal to young male voters
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Tim Walz and AOC are playing Madden on Twitch in an attempt to appeal to young male voters

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In an effort to secure more support from male voters before Election Day, vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., played Madden NFL together on the live streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

“Sunday is for football! It’s the game, AOC,” Walz wrote in a post on X.

The two hopped on the streaming service Sunday afternoon during Sunday’s NFL games to discuss the upcoming election.

Ocasio-Cortez opened the session by explaining that she and Walz agreed to do the live stream a few weeks ago when he expressed interest in doing a game stream with her. They agreed to play Madden because he was a football coach and was familiar with the game, having played it with his children in the past.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L) and Governor Tim Walz (R)

Gov. Tim Walz, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez played a game of “Madden” on Twitch in an attempt to appeal to young male voters. (Pear)

Walz joined the stream after 30 minutes wearing a Minnesota Vikings camo hat before attending a campaign rally in Nevada.

The two wasted no time in taking jabs at former President Donald Trump and stressed the importance of Democrats taking control of the House and maintaining majority control. of the Senate.

“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.

During the live broadcast, Walz told Ocasio-Cortez that if he and Kamala Harris win the election, she will become Speaker of the House.

“We will win this election. We’re going to make you put a gavel in the House,” Walz told Ocasio-Cortez.

The two continue to toy and talk about a Harris-Walz administration, with Walz eluding that he would remove the filibuster.

“The Senate has their own things. They kind of have their ‘norms and customs,’ but in order…,” Ocasio-Cortez said before Walz entered.

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“Maybe, maybe, some of those rules, I’m just going to say I don’t know where you sit, but I’m guessing you and I are probably the same on the filibuster?” Walz asks.

“Oh yeah, we’ve got to get rid of that thing,” Ocasio-Cortez responds.

A filibuster is a Senate rule that allows a minority to block legislation pending a supermajority vote.

While Harris first said he would support the end the filibuster to reintroduce Roe v. Wade-era abortion legislation in 2022, has since made abortion a major issue in her Democratic presidential bid this election cycle. She also advocated an end to the filibuster to pass progressive Green New Deal climate legislation in 2019.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez also spoke about the importance of access to Social Security, bonding over the mutual losses of their fathers when they were teenagers.

“Governor Tim Walz and I both lost our fathers when we were teenagers. Many people don’t know that Social Security also helps you if you lose a spouse (or a parent, if you’re a child). It is so important. we defend it and expand it,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X following the live broadcast.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina earlier this month, Walz claimed that his mother has to wait for her Social Security check every month to feed herself and that Trump and all his “rich friends” don’t care and they don’t even worry about social security.

“When mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made into her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself. That’s how he’ll get things done. coming or not,” Walz claimed.

Walz claimed that a hundred million Americans under Kamala Harris as president will see a tax cut.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez ended their game after playing one inning. Walz played for the Minnesota Vikings, while Ocasio-Cortez played for the Buffalo Bills. The final score was 0-0.

Walz then campaigned in Las Vegas. He attended a “Latinos con Harris-Walz” early voting event and watch party for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas City Chiefs game Sunday afternoon with Congressman Steven Horsford and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez.

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Governor Tim Walz

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

The Harris-Walz campaign said it has focused on building a network of trusted allies to mobilize its male-dominated audience — including a program called “Athletes for Harris,” which is co-chaired by NBA players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul. and former NBA legend Magic Johnson.

During an interview with NBC News last week, Harris fired her declining support among male voters which pressed into why former President Donald Trump had a 16-point lead over the vice president in the key voting block.

“Why do you think there’s a disconnect for you with men right now?” NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interview in Michigan that aired Saturday.

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An NBC poll in early October found that while Harris leads Trump among female voters 55 percent to 41 percent, Trump leads Harris 56 percent to 40 percent among male voters.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell also called in Harris’s problems with male voters during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” earlier this month.

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