Vice President Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), are set to play Madden NFL together on live streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

The announcement comes as the Harris campaign seeks to woo young male voters, a voting bloc where former President Trump is leading in polls.

Harvard Institute of Politics youth survey It found that the gender gap between young supporters of Harris and Trump has more than doubled since the spring, from 8 percentage points in the spring when President Biden was the Democratic nominee to 20 percentage points now when Harris is the party’s nominee.

Polls also showed the Democratic candidate trailing Trump among male voters. key swing states.

A. CNN/SSRS poll Data from September showed Trump leading Harris by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) among likely male voters in Pennsylvania, and Harris leading Trump by 11 points (53 percent to 42 percent) among female voters in the state. showed.

The poll of likely voters in Nevada showed Trump with an 18-point lead among male voters, 57 percent to 39 percent, and Harris with a 16-point lead among female voters, 55 percent to 39 percent. showed that it was.

In the past, the campaign has used Twitch to attract young voters, even using the platform TikTok, YouTube and more than a dozen digital services, transfer Democratic National Convention in August.

The announcement also comes amid a series of ads on Yahoo Sports and DraftKings platforms, which have predominantly male audiences. started Harris’s campaign last week aimed to win the support of young male voters in particular.

Earlier this month, some Democrats expressed concerns that Harris was struggling to engage men in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

“She has a problem with men for the same reason Hillary Clinton does: because there’s misogyny and outdated ideas about who will hold the presidency,” said Democratic strategist Christy Setzer. said We were at The Hill earlier this month. “Meanwhile, Trump doubled down on this ‘strongman’ machismo and dictator move by playing the ‘It’s a Man’s World’ game at his rallies.”

While Clinton lost the men’s vote to Trump in 2016 by 11 points (41 percent to 52 percent), she won the women’s vote by 13 points, 54 percent to 41 percent.

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