Kamala Harris responds to Trump’s claims she never worked at McDonald’s by reciting part of a Big Mac jingle
Vice President Kamala Harris repeated her claim that she worked at McDonald’s on Wednesday, despite former President Donald Trump repeatedly accusing her of lying about it.
Harris was asked about her job at McDonalds during an MSNBC interview with correspondent Stephanie Ruhle, who asked her if she wanted to ask her about a ‘little job.’
‘There’s no such thing as a little job,’ Harris protested.
Ruhle referred to an old McDonald’s television jingle during her question by asking Harris if she had ever served ‘two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions…’
‘…and a sesame seed bun,’ Harris laughed as she completed the jingle.
‘I have,’ Harris asserted. ‘But It was not a small job, like, I did the fries. I mean, you know, I did.’
Kamala Harris answered President Donald Trump’s accusation that she never worked at McDonald’s
Harris said that she liked to talk about people working at McDonald’s because of the difficulties that employees had with the difficulties of trying to raise a family on the limited wages offered by the fast food chain.
‘Part of the reason I even talk about working McDonald’s is because There are people who work at McDonalds in our country who are trying to raise a family … I worked there as a student, I was a kid,’ she said.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Harris is lying about her job at McDonald’s as the vice president has yet to offer any proof of employment there.
Kamala Harris participates in an interview with MSNBC
Harris recited an old McDonald’s jingle about the Big Mac during the interview
‘She said, “I was a worker at McDonald’s and I stood over the French fries,”‘ Trump said at a rally on Tuesday.
Trump has teased the idea of visiting a McDonald’s and trying out the job of making fries, as Harris claims she has done.
‘I’m going to a McDonald’s over the next two weeks and I’m going to stand over the French fries because I’m going to see what her job really wasn’t like,’ he said.
Since taking over the presidential nomination from Biden in July, the Harris campaign made her work at McDonald’s a focus of her biography but failed to provide any new evidence of her employment there.
There are no photos of her in a McDonald’s uniform, no paystubs, and no mention of her or confirmation by the McDonald’s corporate headquarters.
Harris campaign staffers have repeatedly said to news outlets looking for more details about her time at McDonalds that she worked the cash register and staffed the fryer and ice cream machine at a McDonaldâs in Alameda, California, in summer of 1983.
Ruhle questioned Harris about other economic issues, asking her how she planned to increase housing.
Harris said her administration would look at transit dollars and ‘looking holistically at the connection between that and housing and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in a holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing.’
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Donald Trump or Kamala Harris? Why the Daily Mail’s election model is your best chance of predicting who will win
We are headed for the closest election in decades. With everything potentially coming down to a few thousand votes in key states, the election has never been more uncertain.
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So our model can properly account for the impact third-party candidates have on the race.
That unique algorithm ends up helping Trump in states where RFK Jr isnât on the ballot, but Jill Stein and Cornel West – who take more support from Harris – are.
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The authors are:Â Callum Hunter, Data Scientist at J.L. Partners, in London; Landon Wall, modeling and analytics partner, in Arizona; James Johnson, co-founder, in Washington
