On Wednesday, Kamala Harris’s campaign for the presidency – hired a gamer to play “World of Warcraft” while Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, spoke on the podium.
Harris viewed the official broadcast of the popular fantasy – massively multiplayer online game, on Twitch that was streamed by Preheat who is a professional gamer right when Walz’s speech began at a rally in Arizona.
The audience grew nearly to a peak of 5,000 at some point during the live stream. Soon when Walz stepped down from the stream and the stream switched exclusively to World of Warcraft, the number dropped to around 3,500.
Looking at Wired, it is said that the Harris campaign representative said that combining the rally with World of Warcraft gameplay should increase the visibility of Harris and Walz among male youth in America – which is also Twitch’s key audience.
“The campaign has been pursuing young men actively in the last weeks – both during important sports events’ TV breaks and on gaming Websites like IGN.”
In a statement to Wired, the Harris campaign called ‘Preheat’, which focuses on World of Warcraft and creates guides for it, a “volunteer” for the campaign.
According to the magazine, Preheat also helped viewers “on how to deal with one of the new raid enemies from The War Within expansion” during the campaign rally on Wednesday.
Current former US President – Donald Trump also owns a Twitch account, which in July saw his account being unbanned after it was deactivated for a period of three-and-a-half years following the events of January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill invasions.
Trump, however, has not shared any videos on the account and never played any video games live on stream. Here are our fingers crossed for the policies to support the esports scene & for all of us gamers to gain recognition. A dream in the distance, but not so far anymore!
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