OAN Staff James Meyers
9:43 AM – Monday, October 28, 2024
With just over a week before the election, vice-presidential candidate Governor Tim Walz, and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, played Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.
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“Sundays are for football! Game on, AOC,” Walz (D-Minn.) wrote in a post on X.
The two hopped on the video game streaming service on Sunday afternoon, during NFL Sunday games, to discuss the upcoming election.
The move comes after the Kamala Harris campaign looks to appeal to young male voters, which polls have shown that 45th President Donald Trump is leading by a wide margin in that category.
The pair said they agreed to play Madden because Walz used to be a football coach, and he was familiar with the game, having played it with his children in the past.
Walz joined the stream after 30 minutes, wearing a camouflage Minnesota Vikings hat, prior to attending a campaign rally in Nevada.
As the stream started the two Democrats wasted no time taking shots at former President Donald Trump and emphasized the importance of Democrats taking control of the House and keeping 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 (D-N.Y.) said.
Additionally, the Minnesota governor said during the livestream that he would make AOC Speaker of the House.
“We’re gonna win this election. We’re gonna make you put a gavel in your hand in the House,” Walz told Ocasio-Cortez.
As the stream went on, the former National Guardsmen said under a Harris-Walz administration, with Walz saying to eliminate the filibuster.
“The Senate has their own things. They have, kinda their ‘norms and their customs,’ but in order..” Ocasio-Cortez said before Walz cuts in.
“Maybe, maybe, some of those norms, I’m just gonna say I don’t know where you stand, but I’m guessing you and I are probably the same on the filibuster?” Walz asks.
“Oh yeah, we gotta get rid of that thing,” Ocasio-Cortez replies.
Walz and AOC also discussed the importance of access to Social Security, sharing similar sentiments and bonding over their mutual losses of their fathers when they were teenagers.
“Gov. Tim Walz and I both lost our dads when we were teenagers. A lot of people don’t know that Social Security also helps you if you lose a spouse (or parent, if you’re a kid). It’s so important we defend and expand it,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X following the live stream.
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 claimed Trump and his allies don’t care at all.
“When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself. That’s how she’s going to get things done. He [Trump] doesn’t give a damn if his Social Security check comes or not,” Walz claimed.
Walz also claimed that millions of Americans would see a tax cut if Harris is elected as the next president.
The duo only played for one half and the game finished 0-0.
Meanwhile, during an interview with NBC News last week, Harris dismissed her lack of support among male voters who pressed her on why her opponent had a 16-point lead in the polls in that particular category.
“Why do you think there is a disconnect for you with men right now?” NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interview that aired on Saturday.
An NBC poll that was conducted this month found that while Harris leads Trump among women voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads her 56% to 40% among male voters.
Earlier this month, some Democrats expressed worry that Harris is struggling to engage men in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
“She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton did: because misogyny exists, as do outdated ideas about who should hold the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill earlier this month. “Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator’s act, playing ‘It’s a Man’s World’ at his rallies.”
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