Republican VP candidate JD Vance fired back at VP Kamala Harris’ comments during a Wisconsin campaign stop Monday after she likened former President Trump to a ‘fascist’ leader. Meanwhile, other Democrats and liberal outlets on Sunday compared the Madison Square Garden rally to a ‘Nazi’ event.

‘She is a disgrace. She is endangering the life of Donald J. Trump, and we are going to send her back to California, where she belongs. And with that, let’s have a few questions from the media,’ Vance told a crowd of supporters Monday as cheers erupted. 

‘And how dare Kamala Harris call her fellow citizens Nazis for loving this country enough to call her a bad vice president,’ Vance railed. ‘And that’s exactly what she is. How dare Kamala Harris call her fellow citizens racists for not wanting their their communities overwhelmed with fentanyl? How dare Kamala Harris call parents bad people for wanting their children to grow up in safe neighborhoods? How dare Kamala Harris call the American people bad for wanting an economy where they could afford to buy groceries and afford to put a nice roof over the heads of their children?’

Vance’s comments came after Harris said Trump ‘fans the fuel of hatred’ in response to questions from a reporter before boarding Air Force Two on Monday regarding comparisons made to the 1939 Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden, as well as a joke made about Puerto Rico by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during the event.

‘This is not new about him, by the way. What he did last night is not a discovery. It is just more of the same, and it may be more vivid than usual,’ Harris said. ‘Donald Trump spends full-time trying to make Americans point their finger at each other.’

MSNBC edited clips of the Ku Klux Klan rally held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday as the Trump rally was taking place, likening the Republican frontrunner to a ‘fascist’ leader and the rally something out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook. 

‘But that jamboree happening right now, you see it there on your screen in that place, is particularly chilling because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called pro-America rally,’ MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said on air. 

The election is just one week away, meanwhile USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Monday found Trump and Harris neck and neck in Wisconsin, 48% to 47%, respectively, from a statewide poll of 500 likely voters. The razor-thin results fell within the margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

There are other Democratic politicians who have courted votes at the Garden prior to Trump’s battle cry just a week before the election.

In 1924, the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden was a pivotal moment in U.S. political history, marked by intense factionalism and the upfront influence of the KKK. Several Democratic candidates that year had ties to or sympathies with the KKK. 

In 1980, the DNC nominated President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale for re-election at the historic venue. Then, in 1992, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton was officially nominated as the party’s presidential candidate at the Garden. 

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagerstrom and Stephen Storace contributed to this report. 

The leading super PAC funding Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is warning Democratic political operatives that messaging that focuses too narrowly on former President Donald Trump’s fascist label and character flaws is far less effective than messaging that focuses on policy differences between the two presidential candidates. 

Future Forward USA Action, which has contributed more than $56 million to the Harris campaign, reportedly circulated an email Friday insisting that ‘attacking Trump’s fascism is not that persuasive,’ according to the New York Times. The email was part of weekly ‘Doppler’ messages that the fundraising behemoth sends out with guidance on messaging strategies and other tactics that the group has insight on. 

‘Purely negative attacks on Trump’s character are less effective than contrast messages that include positive details about Kamala Harris’s plans to address the needs of everyday Americans,’ the Doppler email read. 

‘Focusing on Trump’s disturbing, ludicrous and outlandish behavior can be an effective lead-in to talking about substantive policy, but is not effective at moving vote choice on its own,’ it also said.

The email pointed to Harris’ response to remarks made by Trump’s former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who said in a series of interviews last week that the former president ‘met the definition’ of a fascist, and claimed Trump had praised Adolf Hitler on multiple occasions. The Doppler email noted that Harris’ comments were only in ‘the 40th percentile on average’ in terms of moving voter choice. 

Meanwhile, Harris’ remarks on ‘The Howard Stern Show’ about promising to expand Medicare to help the elderly pay for in-home care, tested in the 95th percentile, the email pointed out.

‘They’ve been launching these attacks and lies against President Trump for eight years and every poll shows he’s more popular today than ever before,’ Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said. ‘Tells you everything you need to know.’

Fox News reached out to the Harris campaign for comment but did not receive an on-the-record response. The president of Future Forward, Chauncey McLean, did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment either; however, he did issue a rare statement to the New York Times. 

‘Don’t over-read this,’ McLean said. ‘This is just one of our regular emails sharing testing results from thousands of pieces of earned and social media content. It shows people that the most effective way of using Trump’s words and behavior is tying them to consequences in voters’ lives. That’s what Kamala Harris does every day by comparing her to-do list with his enemies list, for example.’

Meanwhile, the Harris campaign released a memo over the weekend, according to the Times, which insisted Harris’ ‘economic message puts Trump on defense.’ 

‘As voters make up their minds, they are getting to see a clear economic choice — hearing it directly from Vice President Harris herself, in her own words,’ the memo declared.

China is expected to double its nuclear arsenal to 1,000 warheads over the next five years, according to a new Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report. 

In 2020, the DIA assessed China had acquired 200 nuclear warheads and would double that by the end of the decade. Now, the intelligence agency says China has already reached 500 warheads and will have more than 1,000 by 2030. 

‘China is undergoing the most rapid expansion and ambitious modernization of its nuclear forces in history,’ the report said, while noting China’s capabilities are still far behind that of the U.S. or Russia.

At the same time, China carried out another ‘combat control’ near the island over the weekend as Beijing threatens countermeasures for the U.S.’ $2 billion arms deal with Taiwan.

That deal included, for the first time, an advanced air defense system battle-tested in Ukraine. 

Taiwan’s defense ministry said it had detected 19 Chinese military aircraft, including Su-30 fighter jets, carrying out a ‘joint combat readiness patrol’ around Taiwan in conjunction with Chinese warships starting on Sunday morning.

The report confirmed findings in the Pentagon’s 2023 report on Chinese military power. 

Russia has about 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and 2,000 non-strategic warheads, according to the report. 

Behind China are France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. 

‘Compared to the PLA’s nuclear modernization efforts a decade ago, current efforts dwarf previous attempts in both scale and complexity.’ The PLA, or People’s Liberation Army, is China’s military force. U.S. officials have tried to question Beijing about the purpose of their rapid expansion, and haven’t gotten clear answers, according to the report. China under President Xi Jinping has been locked in a strategic competition for global power with the U.S. 

Beijing has long upheld a non-first-use (NFU) policy and called for talks among other nuclear powers about a joint commitment to do the same. 

But, the new report warns: ‘Chinese nuclear thinkers could be reconsidering their long-standing view that nuclear war is uncontrollable.’

The agency predicted China could resort to nuclear weapons if a war over Taiwan, which Beijing views as its territory, posed an existential threat to the CCP. 

China may accept ‘greater risk’ as its capabilities mature, according to the report. The nation is also pursuing low-yield nuclear warheads to be used for ‘proportional’ responses to conflict. 

‘Coupled with PLA officers downplaying the risks of imperfect information management during crises, inexperience managing nuclear crises, and their perceptions that they can elicit intended adversary responses while maintaining sufficient battlefield awareness, Beijing may accept greater risks as its nuclear doctrine and capabilities mature.’

The Pentagon has lately been grappling with how to prepare for 2027 – the point at which Chinese leaders have told their military they should have the capability to invade Taiwan. 

As Iran continues to enrich uranium at rapidly expanding rates and surveillance finds new activity at nuclear sites, Tehran ‘almost certainly’ does not yet have nuclear weapons capability, according to the report. 

North Korea, meanwhile, is now fighting on behalf of Russia in Ukraine – prompting global concerns that Moscow could be providing support for Pyongyang’s nuclear programs. 

The House Republicans’ campaign arm is confident that voter enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump will push them to victory in tight races across the country on Election Day.

A National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) memo being sent to candidates and campaigns Monday morning, obtained by Fox News Digital, said the House GOP would rise or fall with Trump.

‘The NRCC holds a Trump card as we enter the home stretch: a historic environmental advantage for the GOP with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket,’ it said. 

‘The House has not flipped in the opposite direction of the results of a presidential election since the 1800s. In the previous 75 years, the House majority has not changed hands during a presidential election cycle. It’s why less than two weeks from Election Day we believe House Republicans can grow our majority.’

It also argues that Trump’s momentum in districts that President Biden won in 2020 is greater than it was in the last election, citing internal data.

‘An October NRCC polling average shows that among the 16 Biden districts that House Republicans currently hold, Kamala only leads by less than a point on the ballot,’ the NRCC memo said.

‘This includes districts in blue states where Trump is currently either statistically tied or holds a lead where Biden won by double digits in 2020. In contrast, in 2020, Joe Biden won these 16 districts by more than 6.3% on average.’

A Fox News poll from mid-October found Trump leading Harris nationally 50% to 48%.

Fox News Digital reached out to House Democrats’ campaign mechanism, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), for comment.

Lawmakers running in tight races, generally known as ‘front-line’ candidates, traditionally must over-perform at the top of their ticket in presidential election years to win.

Both Democrats and Republicans have poured enormous time and resources into such races in New York and California, where a suburban backlash to cities’ progressive crime policies drove the House GOP into control in 2022.

There are 16 seats among that number where voters chose Biden over Trump in 2020; however, and the road to the House majority likely lies through them again.

Republicans’ optimism comes despite their fundraising lagging behind Democrats’ level since Vice President Kamala Harris became the party’s presidential nominee in July.

‘Despite Democrats’ fundraising advantage, Donald Trump’s popularity is pushing outgunned GOP challenger campaigns over the finish line,’ the memo said. 

‘Any Democrat-held seat won by Joe Biden by five points or less in 2020 is in danger of flipping to the GOP due to Trump’s surge – and in some areas of the country, that number is even higher.’

Democrats running in 25 of the 26 races dubbed by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report as ‘toss-ups’ have outraised their Republican opponents in the most recent three-month span, according to an analysis by The Hill.

Meanwhile, The DCCC raised $22.3 million in August, compared to $9.7 million by the NRCC. House Democrats ended that period with more cash than the GOP as well – $87 million compared to $70.7 million.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz repeated Hillary Clinton’s attack that former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City mirrored a 1930s Nazi event. 

Walz compared Trump’s rally on Sunday night to a 1939 ‘pro-America’ rally held by German dictator Adolf Hitler at Madison Square Garden 85 years ago, before World War II.

‘Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,’ Walz said Sunday at a canvas kickoff event in Las Vegas. ‘There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there. So, look, we said we’re all running like everything’s on the line because it is.’ 

Trump 2024 senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told ‘Fox & Friends First’ on Monday that Walz’s comment was ‘offensive,’ and that ‘they should be ashamed of themselves.’ 

Clinton also made the comparison, yet as Murtaugh noted, her own husband, former President Bill Clinton, accepted the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination at Madison Square Garden. The iconic venue, more recently known for Billy Joel concerts, New York Knicks basketball and New York Rangers hockey, has hosted four Democratic conventions and one Republican convention. 

Then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter accepted the Democratic nomination at Madison Square Garden in 1980. Then-President George W. Bush accepted the Republican nomination at the same venue in 2004.

‘It’s ridiculous. Here’s Kamala Harris, who Donald Trump is currently beating, which means she and her campaign are calling more than half the country a bunch of Nazis and yet she wants to be president of it,’ Murtaugh said. ‘There was an Israeli flag flying in Madison Square Garden. President Trump has been recently endorsed by imams in Detroit, and we had a Holocaust survivor as a special guest at the rally last night. And for Tim Walz to come out and say that, it is offensive, it is belittling to what actually happened in Europe at the hands of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews.’ 

‘To make light of that by trying to score political points against your American opponent three quarters of a century later is horribly offensive,’ he added. ‘This is a dying campaign, this is a struggling campaign, and they’re throwing anything at the wall that will stick. They should be ashamed of themselves.’ 

Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden reportedly reached the venue’s maximum 19,500 capacity. 

Donald Trump Jr. said that nearly 200,000 people tried to attend. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote in deep blue New York was 1984 by Ronald Reagan. 

In an effort to secure more support from male voters before Election Day, vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., played Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

‘Sundays are for football! Game on, AOC,’ Walz wrote in a post on X.

The pair jumped on the streaming service Sunday afternoon, during NFL Sunday games, to discuss the upcoming election.

Ocasio-Cortez opened the session explaining that her and Walz agreed to do the live-stream a couple of weeks ago when he expressed interest in doing a game stream with her. They agreed to play Madden because he used to be a football coach, and he was familiar with the game, having played it with his children in the past. 

Walz joined the stream after 30 minutes, wearing a camouflage Minnesota Vikings hat, prior to attending a campaign rally in Nevada. 

The duo wasted no time in throwing jabs at former President Donald Trump and emphasized the importance of Democrats taking control of the House and keeping majority control of the Senate.

‘We don’t all share the same politics, we don’t all share the same views, but the need to defeat Trump this year has been my number one priority,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.

During the live-stream, Walz told Ocasio-Cortez that if he and Kamala Harris win the election, he would make her the Speaker of the House. 

‘We’re gonna win this election. We’re gonna make you put a gavel in your hand in the House,’ Walz told Ocasio-Cortez

The two continue to game and chat about a Harris-Walz administration, with Walz eluding that they would eliminate the filibuster.

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

‘Maybe, maybe, some of those norms, I’m just gonna say I don’t know where you stand, but I’m guessing you and I are probably the same on the filibuster?’ Walz asks.

‘Oh yeah, we gotta get rid of that thing,’ Ocasio-Cortez replies. 

The filibuster is a Senate rule that allows a minority to block legislation pending a supermajority vote.

While Harris first said she would support ending the filibuster to reinstate Roe v. Wade era abortion legislation in 2022, she has since made abortion a major issue in her Democratic bid for the presidency this election cycle. She also supported ending the filibuster to pass the progressive Green New Deal climate legislation in 2019. 

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez also talked about the importance of access to Social Security, bonding over their mutual losses of their dads when they were teenagers.  

‘Gov. Tim Walz and I both lost our dads when we were teenagers. A lot of people don’t know that Social Security also helps you if you lose a spouse (or parent, if you’re a kid). It’s so important we defend and expand it,’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X following the live stream.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina earlier this month, Walz claimed that his mother has to wait for her social security check every month to feed herself and that Trump and all his ‘rich friends’ don’t care or even worry about Social Security. 

‘When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself. That’s how she’s going to get things done. He [Trump] doesn’t give a damn if his Social Security check comes or not,’ Walz claimed. 

Walz touted that a hundred million Americans under Kamala Harris as president would see a tax cut.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez finished their game after playing one half. Walz played for the Minnesota Vikings, while Ocasio-Cortez played for the Buffalo Bills. The final score was 0-0. 

Walz then campaigned in Las Vegas. He attended a ‘Latinos con Harris-Walz’ get-out-the-early-vote event and watch party for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas City Chiefs game with Congressman Steven Horsford and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez on Sunday afternoon.

The Harris-Walz campaign said they have placed an emphasis on building a network of trusted allies to mobilize their male-driven audiences – including a program called, ‘Athletes for Harris,’ which is co-chaired by NBA players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, and former NBA legend Magic Johnson.

During an interview with NBC News last week, Harris dismissed her diminishing support among male voters who pressed her on why former President Donald Trump had a 16-point lead over the vice president in the key voting bloc. 

‘Why do you think there is a disconnect for you with men right now?’ NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interview in Michigan that aired on Saturday.

An NBC poll conducted in early October found that while Harris leads Trump among women voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads Harris 56% to 40% among male voters.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell also called out Harris’ issues with male voters during an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet The Press’ earlier this month.

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

As Ukraine renews its call for an invitation into the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, a former top Trump official warned that such a move ‘risks World War III.’

Reflecting on a variety of geopolitical threats in an interview with Fox News Digital, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien said the U.S. could offer security guarantees for Ukraine and more biting sanctions on Russia, but could not fulfill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request for an invitation into NATO without serious escalation.

‘To bring a country into NATO and the alliance that’s in a war with Russia is very provocative to the Russians, and could lead to escalation, even nuclear war,’ he said.

‘We can certainly give Ukraine security guarantees … put eastern European troops [in Ukraine] to help secure peace after a peace deal gets done. But NATO is too provocative at this point.’

O’Brien’s point of view serves as a glimpse into how a future Trump administration could approach dueling global crises in the Middle East, Russia and the Far East. O’Brien, who was former President Donald Trump’s top adviser on national security issues from 2019 to 2021, has been floated as a possible pick for secretary of state or another national security-focused role. 

‘Of course’ he would accept a job in the White House if Trump is successful in November and offers him one, he said. 

‘It’s always an honor to serve the country and to serve the president. But I’m not campaigning for a job,’ he said. ‘There are a lot of really great people who’d like to work for the president.’

The way out of the war, according to O’Brien, is through the negotiating table, and steeper sanctions are needed to cripple Russia’s economy and bring them to the table.  ‘The sanctions have been relatively minor,’ O’Brien said. ‘They haven’t sanctioned the Russian Federation Central Bank. They haven’t kicked folks out of SWIFT. They’ve taken a few oligarchs’ yachts.’ 

Last week, a growing band of nations looking to break away from the U.S. dollar and challenge western hegemony met at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, as a way to evade western sanctions. 

‘I think we have got to use sanctions less. But when we do use them, we should use them comprehensively. I think slap on the wrist sanctions are the worst of all worlds. It encourages people to leave the dollar as a trading mechanism, but it doesn’t achieve any goal of truly punishing the target country,’ the former adviser said.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said recently that the U.S. is expected to announce fresh sanctions aimed at curbing the Russian war effort in the coming days. The restrictions will be aimed at secondary entities that are supplying Russia with critical supplies. 

‘Ukraine is going to be in real demographic trouble if it doesn’t stop the war,’ O’Brien mused. ‘We’re going to leave it to Ukrainians to decide what they’re willing to trade for peace.’ 

In the Middle East, O’Brien said, President Joe Biden has tried to ‘constrain Israel’s actions.’ 

‘Everything from negotiating with the Hamas terrorists, to not sending our Special Forces to rescue Americans who were taken hostage, to failing to punish Hamas for killing 30 Americans on Oct. 7, up to today, with Biden and Harris trying to dictate to Israel what targets they can hit in Iran — all projects weakness.’

From the left, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have lost support for not taking a strong enough stance against Israel’s offensive campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon — campaigns that have soured Israel’s standing among its neighbors.

It’s begged the question whether Israel would normalize relations with Saudi Arabia – a deal that had been on the precipice of completion when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

O’Brien said he is not worried about Israel’s standing in the Middle East. ‘I’m actually surprised at how durable the Abraham Accords have been,’ referring to the deals between Israel, Bahrain, the UAE and Morocco that he helped broker under Trump. 

‘I think absolutely Saudi Arabia will join the accords. It may take Donald Trump winning the election for that to happen,’ O’Brien said. 

But that would likely depend on the makeup of Congress. Two-thirds of the Senate would have to approve the deal — a high bar for Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of human rights violations and involvement in the 9/11 attacks. To add to the contention, the deal would likely include the U.S. agreeing to allow the Saudis to work on nuclear projects for energy purposes.

Such a deal would amount to a pivotal realignment of the Middle East and further isolate Iran. But this week, Saudi Arabia and Iran conducted unprecedented joint military drills in the gulf of Oman. 

But O’Brien shrugged off the threat of the potential realignment of a U.S. ally, as Iran awaits Israel’s counter-attack for the 200 missiles it fired on Tel Aviv on Oct. 1.

‘Iran’s been exposed for being a lot of bark and less bite,’ he said. ‘They have no air force to speak of. They’ve got a couple old F 14 Tom Cats that can’t make it to Israel. They’ve got no real Navy to speak of. And their missile attacks have been blunted with very little damage or loss of life in Israel. There’s not a lot Iran can do right now. They’re wide open to Israeli attack.’ 

And while Harris asserted Iran is the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical threat, O’Brien insists it’s China.

‘If Iran is such a big threat to our freedom, why have we stood by and not enforced the sanctions?’ he asked.

‘China is the biggest threat to America. China has the demographics, the number of people, they’re hard-working, they’ve got a massive economy. China is an existential threat to America because they could beat us in a war and change our way of life. Iran can never defeat us in a war. They can’t change our way of life.’

In an effort to secure more support from male voters before Election Day, vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., played Madden NFL together on the live-streaming platform Twitch on Sunday.

‘Sundays are for football! Game on, AOC,’ Walz wrote in a post on X.

The pair jumped on the streaming service Sunday afternoon, during NFL Sunday games, to discuss the upcoming election.

Ocasio-Cortez opened the session explaining that her and Walz agreed to do the live-stream a couple of weeks ago when he expressed interest in doing a game stream with her. They agreed to play Madden because he used to be a football coach, and he was familiar with the game, having played it with his children in the past. 

Walz joined the stream after 30 minutes, wearing a camouflage Minnesota Vikings hat, prior to attending a campaign rally in Nevada. 

The duo wasted no time in throwing jabs at former President Donald Trump and emphasized the importance of Democrats taking control of the House and keeping majority control of the Senate.

‘We don’t all share the same politics, we don’t all share the same views, but the need to defeat Trump this year has been my number one priority,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.

During the live-stream, Walz told Ocasio-Cortez that if he and Kamala Harris win the election, he would make her the Speaker of the House. 

‘We’re gonna win this election. We’re gonna make you put a gavel in your hand in the House,’ Walz told Ocasio-Cortez

The two continue to game and chat about a Harris-Walz administration, with Walz eluding that they would eliminate the filibuster.

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

‘Maybe, maybe, some of those norms, I’m just gonna say I don’t know where you stand, but I’m guessing you and I are probably the same on the filibuster?’ Walz asks.

‘Oh yeah, we gotta get rid of that thing,’ Ocasio-Cortez replies. 

The filibuster is a Senate rule that allows a minority to block legislation pending a supermajority vote.

While Harris first said she would support ending the filibuster to reinstate Roe v. Wade era abortion legislation in 2022, she has since made abortion a major issue in her Democratic bid for the presidency this election cycle. She also supported ending the filibuster to pass the progressive Green New Deal climate legislation in 2019. 

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez also talked about the importance of access to Social Security, bonding over their mutual losses of their dads when they were teenagers.  

‘Gov. Tim Walz and I both lost our dads when we were teenagers. A lot of people don’t know that Social Security also helps you if you lose a spouse (or parent, if you’re a kid). It’s so important we defend and expand it,’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X following the live stream.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina earlier this month, Walz claimed that his mother has to wait for her social security check every month to feed herself and that Trump and all his ‘rich friends’ don’t care or even worry about Social Security. 

‘When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that’s how she’s going to feed herself. That’s how she’s going to get things done. He [Trump] doesn’t give a damn if his Social Security check comes or not,’ Walz claimed. 

Walz touted that a hundred million Americans under Kamala Harris as president would see a tax cut.

Walz and Ocasio-Cortez finished their game after playing one half. Walz played for the Minnesota Vikings, while Ocasio-Cortez played for the Buffalo Bills. The final score was 0-0. 

Walz then campaigned in Las Vegas. He attended a ‘Latinos con Harris-Walz’ get-out-the-early-vote event and watch party for the Las Vegas Raiders vs. Kansas City Chiefs game with Congressman Steven Horsford and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez on Sunday afternoon.

The Harris-Walz campaign said they have placed an emphasis on building a network of trusted allies to mobilize their male-driven audiences – including a program called, ‘Athletes for Harris,’ which is co-chaired by NBA players Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, and former NBA legend Magic Johnson.

During an interview with NBC News last week, Harris dismissed her diminishing support among male voters who pressed her on why former President Donald Trump had a 16-point lead over the vice president in the key voting bloc. 

‘Why do you think there is a disconnect for you with men right now?’ NBC’s Peter Alexander asked Harris during an interview in Michigan that aired on Saturday.

An NBC poll conducted in early October found that while Harris leads Trump among women voters, 55% to 41%, Trump leads Harris 56% to 40% among male voters.

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell also called out Harris’ issues with male voters during an appearance on NBC’s ‘Meet The Press’ earlier this month.

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