Published 15:55 IST, October 21st 2020

Ilhan Omar & AOC's enjoyable 'Among Us' twitch stream garners lakhs of views

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & US Representative Ilhan Omar shocked their followers by appearing in an 'Among Us' Twitch stream. Read more

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Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is t just an astute and highly intelligent politician. However, she is a terrible killer. In her October 20 stream, AOC was joined by  US representative Ilhan Omar. Both ladies made ir Twitch debuts on same day and enjoyed a few rounds of  sleeper hit Among Us. AOC and Ilhan Omar were joined in ir stream by numerous A-list Twitch streamers like Pokimane, Dr Lupo, Jacksepticeye and etc. Read on to kw more.

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Ilhan Omar and AOC play Among Us live

AOC's Twitch stream received a lot of attention. In an interview with Mashable, Twitch confirmed that her channel reached a peak of over 435,000 concurrent viewers during three-and-a-half-hour broadcast. This is a mind-blowing figure considering that she is a new streamer and that number one record in terms of views is 667,000, which was achieved by hugely popular Fortnite streamer Ninja.

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Anyone who has played game will understand that its me surrounds betrayal, sabot and murders. game can very easily turn into a bitter battle as impostors conjure up a web of lies. However, AOC and Ilhan Omar’s Twitch stream was surprisingly wholesome. New York representative's early playtime was spent figuring out how game actually worked. She was fretting that she couldn't kill anyone and hence, did t wish to be impostor. Meanwhile, many of her opponents joked about being petrified about killing Congresswoman.

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Ihan Omar turned out to be a better impostor in game than AOC. She pulled off some impressive sprees and lied quite smoothly when it came to covering up for her kills. AOC certainly kept improving throughout stream, but she has a long way to go when it comes to being a cold-hearted cosmic killer. When AOC was made impostor, she said, "Oh my gosh guys, I can't believe I have to kill people in this.” She was frantically running about ship-like world's most reluctant murderer and stated, ”I can't kill Poki, she's so nice."

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Towards end of stream, AOC encourd that viewers to vote by including a link to IWillVote.com in her stream. In fact, voting is a key aspect of Among Us' gameplay, hence this made game more suitable to play and stream just ahead of US elections. Many fans took to Twitter to share hilarious snippets from stream.

Im Source: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (Twitter)

15:55 IST, October 21st 2020