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Trump to visit McDonald鈥檚 as he offers no evidence for saying Harris didn鈥檛 work there in college

His plan is to visit a McDonald鈥檚 and work the french fry cooker
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Bloomberg photo by Caitlin O鈥橦ara.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday is expected to visit a McDonald鈥檚 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 McDonald鈥檚 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 McDonald鈥檚 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 鈥渓ied about working at McDonald鈥檚.鈥

鈥淭hat鈥檚 like not a big thing, but can I be honest with you, it鈥檚 terrible,鈥 Trump said.

Police closed the busy streets around a McDonald鈥檚 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 McDonald鈥檚 experience as a way to show she understands working-class struggles.

鈥淲hen Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie,鈥 Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday. 鈥淗e can鈥檛 understand what it鈥檚 like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.鈥

In an interview last month on MSNBC, the vice president pushed back on Trump鈥檚 claims, saying she did work at the fast-food chain four decades ago when she was in college.

鈥淧art of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald鈥檚 is because there are people who work at McDonald鈥檚 in our country who are trying to raise a family,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 worked there as a student.鈥

Harris also said: 鈥淚 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.鈥

Trump鈥檚 senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters on Saturday that Trump would be making the stop 鈥渟o that one candidate in this race can actually have worked at McDonald鈥檚.鈥

鈥淪ince Kamala Harris has not, President Trump by the end of tomorrow will have worked at McDonald鈥檚. He鈥檒l have done fries more than Kamala Harris ever has,鈥 Miller said. 鈥淚 think it shows he connects with hard-working Americans.鈥

Harris鈥 campaign did not immediately have a comment on Trump鈥檚 McDonald鈥檚 plan.

Representatives for McDonald鈥檚 did not respond to a message about whether the company had employment records for one of its restaurants 40 years ago.

It鈥檚 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 residents鈥 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 鈥渂irther鈥 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 Obama鈥檚 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 tabloid鈥檚 claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz鈥檚 father, who was born in Cuba, had links to President John F. Kennedy鈥檚 assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Cruz and Trump competed for the party鈥檚 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 Haley鈥檚 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 McDonald鈥檚 four decades ago is a 鈥減uzzling detour,鈥 but that Trump is 鈥渘ot above throwing anything on the wall to see if it sticks.鈥

鈥淲hen Donald Trump isn鈥檛 talking about the economy and illegal immigration, he鈥檚 off topic about the things that people care about,鈥 Marson said.

Marson suggested that Trump would be better off talking about the economy and immigration, not something he called 鈥渙ff topic.鈥

鈥淚 don鈥檛 think there鈥檚 an undecided voter out there that will respond or that will make their decision based on whether or not Kamala Harris actually worked at McDonald鈥檚 in the 1980s,鈥 Marson said.





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