Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez planned to broadcast themselves playing a football video game on Sunday as the two Democrats continued their party's efforts to secure young votes just nine days before the election. White House.
Walz and Ocasio-Cortez were scheduled to face off on the Twitch platform at 3 pm ET in the latest edition of the Madden game after a recent NBC News. poll found that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had a two percentage point lead over Donald Trump among young male registered voters.
Despite the advantage, Democrats have performed better among the demographic in previous election cycles, raising concerns among the party. And on Friday, the Trump campaign apparently attempted to raise concerns, as the former president spent three hours on Joe Rogan's podcast, whose audience is predominantly young men and whose show often tops entero charts on both Apple and Spotify.
At one point it was rumored that Harris appeared with Rogan, but the meeting never materialized. And instead, it was Trump who took the floor to defend the replacement of the income tax with tariffs and remember the “genius” of Robert E Lee, the Confederate soldier who owned slaves and commanded the white supremacist, losing side of the Civil War. US.
Sunday's event with Ocasio-Cortez comes after her first appearance on the Twitch platform in 2020 and was one of the most viewed events on the platform at the time. Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden weeks later.
Sunday's session also comes after Harris campaigned in early October. Live streamed a Walz rally on Twitch alongside live gameplay of the World of Warcraft game.
Another campaign strategy by Harris aimed at supporting young men has been focused on a series of ads on the sports betting platform DraftKings, Yahoo Sports and on websites such as IGN (short for Think about Video Games Community) and Fandom.
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