Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, performed video video games and talked politics in a stream on Twitch with lower than two weeks earlier than the election.
Within the stream on Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch channel, she and Walz mentioned matters like Social Safety, management of the Home and disillusioned left-wing voters. The 2 additionally performed Madden NFL, with the New York Home member choosing the Buffalo Payments and the Minnesota governor choosing the Minnesota Vikings in a head-to-head matchup.
The Twitch group up with Ocasio-Cortez and Walz comes as Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign makes an attempt to court docket younger males, who’re generally related to the streaming platform. Harris has additionally not too long ago launched a Twitch channel herself.
One notable second within the stream got here as Walz and Ocasio-Cortez have been reacting to feedback about Puerto Rico made throughout a Trump rally at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York on Sunday. Within the feedback, comic Tony Hinchcliffe mentioned “I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,” including that he believes “it’s called Puerto Rico.”
“Who is that jackwad? Who is that guy?” Walz questioned.
Ocasio-Cortez, who’s of Puerto Rican descent, later mentioned “the thing that is so messed up that I wish more people understood, is that the things that they do in Puerto Rico are a testing ground for the policies and the horrors that they wish … that they do unveil in working class communities across the United States.”
“And, I need people to understand … when you have some a-hole calling Puerto Rico ‘floating garbage,’ know that that’s what they think about you,” she added.
The Sunday feedback from Hinchcliffe additionally drew backlash from different Democrats and the Harris marketing campaign.
“As a Puerto Rican, I am tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage but doing so would be an insult to garbage,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) mentioned in a put up on the social platform X. “When casting their ballots at the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems all too willing to platform.”
The Hill has reached out to the Trump marketing campaign for remark.
