Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers is booed at the convention for a reference to the Green Bay Packers and then has difficulty speaking

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is apparently not cut out to handle the Chicago Bears’ 12th man.

When the Democratic governor tried to announce his state’s party delegates for Kamala Harris at the DNC on Tuesday, Evers was booed so loudly by the crowd in his hometown of Chicago for a sports reference that he had a hard time finishing the statement.

Evers stood before a crowd of Wisconsin delegates wearing cheesehead hats, the famous headgear worn by Green Bay Packers fans. The Packers are the Chicago Bears’ fiercest rivals, and their rivalry has lasted for over 100 years. The Bears and Packers are the oldest rivalry in the NFL, and the two teams have met more times than any other team in NFL history.

After all these meetings, their fans, to put it bluntly, don’t like each other.

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Evers was reminded of this in the strongest terms by his party colleagues in Chicago with loud boos.

But that didn’t stop Evers from reading the names of the other major sports teams from his state, including the University of Wisconsin Badgers and the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers. When it came time to announce the delegation’s vote for Harris, the governor was at a loss for words.

“Wisconsin has one vote and 90 more votes for… where are we?” Evers said before he lost his words. Then he paused to compose himself and announced to the crowd, “You got me going here.”

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Then Evers mumbled again and paused to catch his breath. He said, “Oh my God,” before the idiots around him started chanting, “We love you, Tony!”

Evers shook his head and repeated “I” three times before pausing again.

“94 votes for…” Evers began, before having to pause again. “I will do it, I will do it.”

The crowd fell silent, except for one man standing right next to Evers, who chuckled and looked around. Then the governor twitched his hand and began to speak again.

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“Ninety-four votes for former Vice President and our next President of the United States of America, Kamala Ha-Harris,” he finally declared.

Evers, 72, has been in office since January 2019. In April, he called for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to overturn a ruling that banned mail-in ballot drop boxes outside polling stations in the battleground state. In a motion filed on the day of Wisconsin’s presidential primary, Evers asked the court to overturn a 2022 ruling that limited the locations of mail-in ballot drop boxes.

In March, Evers vetoed 41 bills passed by the Republican-led House, including a $3 billion Republican tax cut, loyalty pledges for college employees and a plan to limit the number of wolves that can be hunted each year.

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