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JD Vance Rips Tim Walz For Botching Football Term While Playing ‘Madden’ With AOC

"It made me realize that even though they say Tim Walz was a [high school] football coach, I think I know more about football than Tim Walz."

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WATERFORD, MICHIGAN - OCTOBER 24: Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks during a campaign rally at the Elite Jet at Contact Aviation facility on October 24, 2024 in Waterford, Michigan. Vance and his running mate Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump continue rallying with people across the battleground swing state of Michigan ahead of the November 5 election.
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance blasted his opponent Tim Walz on Monday after the Democratic governor botched a common football term in a post about playing “Madden” with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

As millions of people watched actual football on Sunday afternoon, Walz and Ocasio-Cortez live-streamed themselves playing the popular NFL video game and talking about the 2024 race. In a since-deleted X post promoting the live stream, Walz wrote that “AOC can run a mean pick 6 — and I can call an audible on a play. And we both know that if you take the time to draw up a playbook, you’re gonna use it.” The post was meant to draw attention to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative playbook for a second Trump term that Trump has repeatedly said is not a part of his agenda.

As pointed out by Vance on Monday, a “pick 6” is not a play or a scheme as Walz’s post suggested. It’s the term used for when a defensive player intercepts a throw and returns it for a touchdown.

“I guess the goal is to try to appeal to the young male vote by playing video games online with AOC. I don’t know who came up with that idea,” Vance said.

“He was talking about playbooks and trying to connect that to Project 2025, and he said, ‘Yesterday, AOC, she did very good, she ran a pick 6.’ Ran a pick 6. You don’t run a pick 6. You run the West Coast offense and the spread offense and, you know, 3-4 and 4-3 defense. It made me realize that even though they say Tim Walz was a [high school] football coach, I think I know more about football than Tim Walz. And it’s appropriate ’cause I think my running mate Donald J. Trump knows more about working at McDonald’s than Kamala Harris does,” he added.

Walz was also slammed on social media, including by the Trump campaign, which wrote, “Tampon Tim is such a dork. You’d think a so-called football coach would be aware that you don’t run a pick 6!”

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New York Post reporter James David Dickson added, “You don’t ‘run’ a Pick 6, it’s not a system of offense. Tim ‘Swan Lake’ Walz is supposed to be a football coach?”

“And they wonder why they can’t get men to vote for this ticket,” wrote Townhall columnist Dustin Grage.

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