Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday is expected to visit a McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 in Pennsylvania as he continues to criticize Democrat Kamala Harris and claim without evidence that she never worked at the fast-food chain while in college.
His plan is to visit a McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 and work the french fry cooker before heading to an evening town hall in Lancaster and then attending the Pittsburgh Steelers home game against the New York Jets.
The former president has fixated in recent weeks on the summer job Harris said she held in college, working the cash register and making fries at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 while attending Howard University in Washington. Trump has claimed the vice president never worked there, the latest example of his longtime strategy to seize on conspiracy theories and question the credentials of his political opponents.
Trump repeated the claim Friday night at a campaign rally in Detroit, saying Harris B次元官网网址渓ied about working at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚.B次元官网网址�
B次元官网网址淭hatB次元官网网址檚 like not a big thing, but can I be honest with you, itB次元官网网址檚 terrible,B次元官网网址� Trump said.
Police closed the busy streets around a McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, and cordoned off the restaurant as a crowd a couple blocks long gathered, sometimes 10- to 15-deep across the street straining to catch a glimpse of Trump. Horns honked and music blared as Trump supporters waved flags, held signs and took pictures.
Harris, who was a California prosecutor before becoming a senator and vice president, raises her McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 experience as a way to show she understands working-class struggles.
B次元官网网址淲hen Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie,B次元官网网址� Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday. B次元官网网址淗e canB次元官网网址檛 understand what itB次元官网网址檚 like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.B次元官网网址�
In an interview last month on MSNBC, the vice president pushed back on TrumpB次元官网网址檚 claims, saying she did work at the fast-food chain four decades ago when she was in college.
B次元官网网址淧art of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 is because there are people who work at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 in our country who are trying to raise a family,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淚 worked there as a student.B次元官网网址�
Harris also said: B次元官网网址淚 think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility, then, is to meet those needs.B次元官网网址�
TrumpB次元官网网址檚 senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters on Saturday that Trump would be making the stop B次元官网网址渟o that one candidate in this race can actually have worked at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚.B次元官网网址�
B次元官网网址淪ince Kamala Harris has not, President Trump by the end of tomorrow will have worked at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚. HeB次元官网网址檒l have done fries more than Kamala Harris ever has,B次元官网网址� Miller said. B次元官网网址淚 think it shows he connects with hard-working Americans.B次元官网网址�
HarrisB次元官网网址� campaign did not immediately have a comment on TrumpB次元官网网址檚 McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 plan.
Representatives for McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 did not respond to a message about whether the company had employment records for one of its restaurants 40 years ago.
ItB次元官网网址檚 far from the first time that Trump has promoted baseless claims. Most notably, he claims falsely that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden due to voter fraud. Trump said during his presidential debate with Harris that immigrants who had settled in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residentsB次元官网网址� pets.
Trump has long gone after opponents based on their personal history, particularly women and racial minorities.
Before he ran for president, Trump was a leading voice of the B次元官网网址渂irtherB次元官网网址� conspiracy that baselessly claimed President Barack Obama was from Africa, was not an American citizen and therefore was ineligible to be president. Trump used it to raise his own political profile, demanding to see ObamaB次元官网网址檚 birth certificate and five years after Obama did so, Trump finally admitted that Obama was born in the United States.
During his first run for president, Trump repeated a tabloidB次元官网网址檚 claims that Texas Sen. Ted CruzB次元官网网址檚 father, who was born in Cuba, had links to President John F. KennedyB次元官网网址檚 assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Cruz and Trump competed for the partyB次元官网网址檚 2016 nomination.
In January of this year, when Trump was facing Nikki Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, in the Republican primary, he shared on his social media network a post with false claims that HaleyB次元官网网址檚 parents were not citizens when she was born, therefore making her ineligible to be president.
Haley is the South Carolina-born daughter of Indian immigrants, making her automatically a native-born citizen and meeting the constitutional requirement to run for president.
Barrett Marson, a Republican strategist in Arizona, said using a campaign visit to focus on the claims about McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 four decades ago is a B次元官网网址減uzzling detour,B次元官网网址� but that Trump is B次元官网网址渘ot above throwing anything on the wall to see if it sticks.B次元官网网址�
B次元官网网址淲hen Donald Trump isnB次元官网网址檛 talking about the economy and illegal immigration, heB次元官网网址檚 off topic about the things that people care about,B次元官网网址� Marson said.
Marson suggested that Trump would be better off talking about the economy and immigration, not something he called B次元官网网址渙ff topic.B次元官网网址�
B次元官网网址淚 donB次元官网网址檛 think thereB次元官网网址檚 an undecided voter out there that will respond or that will make their decision based on whether or not Kamala Harris actually worked at McDonaldB次元官网网址檚 in the 1980s,B次元官网网址� Marson said.
