Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz are scheduled to play video video games on the streaming platform Twitch in a determined try and court docket younger male voters.
The duo will play Madden NFL on Sunday. It’ll happen on the congresswoman’s Twitch channel.
It is a TWITCH Public Service Announcement
Me versus @Tim_Walz.
Madden.
TOMORROW 3pm EST on https://t.co/u9zNReAauYYou prepared Gov? pic.twitter.com/4h9tEPyZNG
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 26, 2024
This isn’t the primary time the Democrats have used the platform to attempt to win over youthful voters. The Harris marketing campaign additionally live-streamed the Democratic Nationwide Conference to Twitch in August.
A report from The Verge famous, “Ocasio-Cortez is already well-known for her big Amongst Us stream forward of the 2020 election and a stream in July 2023 the place she performed Pico Park and Gartic Cellphone. (She’s a fan of League of Legends, too.) However whereas Walz is a identified Dreamcast fan and a profitable highschool soccer coach, this would be the first time we’ll get to see him play video games stay on Twitch. Possibly sometime we’ll get to see him play Loopy Taxi.”
AOC and Tim Walz will likely be enjoying Madden on Twitch tomorrow.
That is silly as a result of NFL followers will likely be watching folks play actual soccer tomorrow.— BrutalBrittany (@BrutalBrittany2) October 26, 2024
The Hill reports, “This announcement additionally comes amid a collection of adverts on Yahoo Sports activities and DraftKings — platforms with predominantly male audiences — launched by the Harris marketing campaign final week particularly aimed toward profitable over younger male voters.”
Harris supporters have blamed her unpopularity with younger males on “misogyny.”
“She has an issue with males for a similar cause Hillary Clinton did: as a result of misogyny exists, as do outdated concepts about who ought to maintain the presidency,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill. “In the meantime, Trump has doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator’s act, enjoying ‘It’s a Man’s World’ at his rallies.”