{"id":119191,"date":"2024-10-28T04:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119191"},"modified":"2024-10-28T04:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:33:47","slug":"tim-walz-and-aoc-play-football-video-game-on-twitch-in-appeal-to-young-men-us-elections-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119191","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz and AOC play football video game on Twitch in appeal to young men | US elections 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Vice-presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tim-walz\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Tim Walz<\/a> and Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> on Sunday streamed themselves playing an American football video game against each other on Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party\u2019s efforts to secure votes from young men just nine days before the White House election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/AOC\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">During the stream<\/a> of their showdown on the latest edition of the Madden game series, Ocasio-Cortez and Walz exalted the importance of regaining Democratic control of the US House, maintaining a majority in the Senate and ensuring Kamala Harris wins the 5 November presidential election against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cWe don\u2019t all share the same politics, we don\u2019t all share the same views, but the need to defeat Trump this year has been my number one priority,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">She echoed others who have called Trump an aspiring authoritarian ruler and fascist supported by special interests who are exacerbating the ongoing climate crisis. She also discussed how the billionaire owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/oct\/27\/bezos-washington-post-non-endorsement-election\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">prevented<\/a> their editorial teams endorsing Harris over Trump, referring to it as \u201ca plutocracy mask-off moment<strong>\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Ocasio-Cortez said she spoke with Walz a couple of weeks earlier when he expressed interest in doing a game stream with her. They agreed to play Madden because he used to be a football coach, and he was familiar with the series having gamed with his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Walz attended the stream prior to a campaign rally in Nevada, logging on at about 3.30pm ET before detailing a history with gaming dating back to the original Pac Man, which hit arcades in the 1980. He played with the Minnesota Vikings and Ocasio-Cortez with the Buffalo Bills as about 12,000 users watched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Walz \u2013 Minnesota\u2019s governor \u2013 and Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitch after a recent NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/poll-women-drive-big-advantage-harris-young-voters-men-divided-rcna176321\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">survey<\/a> found the Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris had a lead of two percentage points over Donald Trump with young male registered voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Despite the edge, Democrats have polled better among the demographic in previous election cycles, creating concern among the party. And on Friday, Trump\u2019s campaign seemingly tried to add to concern, having the former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">spend<\/a> three hours on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamonitors.com\/audience-demographic-variations-specific-to-genre\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">audience<\/a> is predominantly young men and whose show often leads the global charts on both Apple and Spotify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Harris at one point was rumored to appear with Rogan, but the sit-down never materialized. And instead it was Trump who took the spot to make his case for replacing income tax with tariffs and to reminisce about the \u201cgenius\u201d of Robert E Lee, the Confederate military general who owned enslaved people and commanded the white supremacist, losing side of the US civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Sunday\u2019s event with Ocasio-Cortez came after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/21\/aocs-twitch-stream-was-one-of-the-platforms-biggest-ever-.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">first appearance<\/a> on the Twitch platform in 2020 was one of the platform\u2019s most watched events at that time. Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Sunday\u2019s session also came after the Harris campaign earlier in October <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tim-walz-rally-world-of-warcraft-twitch\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">live-streamed<\/a> a Walz rally on Twitch alongside live play of the World of Warcraft game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Another Harris campaign strategy targeting the support of young men has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4941844-harris-campaign-draftkings-ads-male-voters\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">centered on<\/a> a series of ads on the sports gambling platform DraftKings, Yahoo Sports, and on websites such as IGN (short for Imagine Games Network) and Fandom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/27\/tim-walz-football-video-game-twitch\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday streamed themselves playing an American football video game against each other on Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119191\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}