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In an effort to unafraid much enactment from antheral voters earlier Election Day, vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., played Madden NFL unneurotic connected the live-streaming level Twitch connected Sunday.

"Sundays are for football! Game on, AOC," Walz wrote successful a station connected X.

The brace jumped connected the streaming work Sunday afternoon, during NFL Sunday games, to sermon the upcoming election.

Ocasio-Cortez opened the league explaining that her and Walz agreed to bash the live-stream a mates of weeks agone erstwhile helium expressed involvement successful doing a crippled watercourse with her. They agreed to play Madden due to the fact that helium utilized to beryllium a shot coach, and helium was acquainted with the game, having played it with his children successful the past. 

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

Gov. Tim Walz, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez played a crippled of 'Madden' connected Twitch successful an effort to entreaty to young antheral voters. (Twitch)

Walz joined the watercourse aft 30 minutes, wearing a camouflage Minnesota Vikings hat, anterior to attending a run rally successful Nevada. 

The duo wasted nary clip successful throwing jabs astatine erstwhile President Donald Trump and emphasized the value of Democrats taking power of the House and keeping bulk power of the Senate.

"We don’t each stock the aforesaid politics, we don’t each stock the aforesaid views, but the request to decision Trump this twelvemonth has been my fig 1 priority," Ocasio-Cortez said.

During the live-stream, Walz told Ocasio-Cortez that if helium and Kamala Harris triumph the election, helium would marque her the Speaker of the House. 

"We're gonna triumph this election. We're gonna marque you enactment a gavel successful your manus successful the House," Walz told Ocasio-Cortez

The 2 proceed to crippled and chat astir a Harris-Walz administration, with Walz eluding that they would destruct the filibuster.

"The Senate has their ain things. They have, kinda their ‘norms and their customs,’ but successful order.." Ocasio-Cortez said earlier Walz cuts in.

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"Maybe, maybe, immoderate of those norms, I'm conscionable gonna accidental I don't cognize wherever you stand, but I'm guessing you and I are astir apt the aforesaid connected the filibuster?" Walz asks.

"Oh yeah, we gotta get escaped of that thing," Ocasio-Cortez replies. 

The filibuster is simply a Senate regularisation that allows a number to artifact authorities pending a supermajority vote.

While Harris archetypal said she would enactment ending the filibuster to reinstate Roe v. Wade epoch termination authorities successful 2022, she has since made termination a large contented successful her Democratic bid for the presidency this predetermination cycle. She besides supported ending the filibuster to walk the progressive Green New Deal clime authorities successful 2019. 

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez besides talked astir the value of entree to Social Security, bonding implicit their communal losses of their dads erstwhile they were teenagers.  

"Gov. Tim Walz and I some mislaid our dads erstwhile we were teenagers. A batch of radical don’t cognize that Social Security besides helps you if you suffer a spouse (or parent, if you’re a kid). It’s truthful important we support and grow it," Ocasio-Cortez wrote connected X pursuing the unrecorded stream.

During a run rally successful North Carolina earlier this month, Walz claimed that his parent has to hold for her societal information cheque each period to provender herself and that Trump and each his "rich friends" don't attraction oregon adjacent interest astir Social Security. 

"When my ma looks for that Social Security deposit to beryllium made successful her slope account, that's however she's going to provender herself. That's however she's going to get things done. He [Trump] doesn't springiness a damn if his Social Security cheque comes oregon not," Walz claimed. 

Walz touted that a 100 cardinal Americans nether Kamala Harris arsenic president would spot a taxation cut.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez finished their crippled aft playing 1 half. Walz played for the Minnesota Vikings, portion Ocasio-Cortez played for the Buffalo Bills. The last people was 0-0. 

Walz past campaigned successful Las Vegas. He attended a "Latinos con Harris-Walz" get-out-the-early-vote lawsuit and ticker enactment for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas City Chiefs crippled with Congressman Steven Horsford and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez connected Sunday afternoon.

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Gov. Tim Walz

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

The Harris-Walz run said they person placed an accent connected gathering a web of trusted allies to mobilize their male-driven audiences – including a programme called, "Athletes for Harris," which is co-chaired by NBA players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, and erstwhile NBA fable Magic Johnson.

During an interrogation with NBC News past week, Harris dismissed her diminishing enactment among antheral voters who pressed her connected wherefore erstwhile President Donald Trump had a 16-point pb implicit the vice president successful the cardinal voting bloc. 

"Why bash you deliberation determination is simply a disconnect for you with men close now?" NBC's Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interrogation successful Michigan that aired connected Saturday.

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An NBC canvass conducted successful aboriginal October recovered that portion Harris leads Trump among women voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads Harris 56% to 40% among antheral voters.

MSNBC big Andrea Mitchell besides called retired Harris' issues with antheral voters during an quality connected NBC's "Meet The Press" earlier this month.

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

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