Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday is expected to visit a McDonald91裸聊视频檚 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 McDonald91裸聊视频檚 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 McDonald91裸聊视频檚 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 91裸聊视频渓ied about working at McDonald91裸聊视频檚.91裸聊视频
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Police closed the busy streets around a McDonald91裸聊视频檚 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 McDonald91裸聊视频檚 experience as a way to show she understands working-class struggles.
91裸聊视频淲hen Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie,91裸聊视频 Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday. 91裸聊视频淗e can91裸聊视频檛 understand what it91裸聊视频檚 like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.91裸聊视频
In an interview last month on MSNBC, the vice president pushed back on Trump91裸聊视频檚 claims, saying she did work at the fast-food chain four decades ago when she was in college.
91裸聊视频淧art of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald91裸聊视频檚 is because there are people who work at McDonald91裸聊视频檚 in our country who are trying to raise a family,91裸聊视频 she said. 91裸聊视频淚 worked there as a student.91裸聊视频
Harris also said: 91裸聊视频淚 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.91裸聊视频
Trump91裸聊视频檚 senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters on Saturday that Trump would be making the stop 91裸聊视频渟o that one candidate in this race can actually have worked at McDonald91裸聊视频檚.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淪ince Kamala Harris has not, President Trump by the end of tomorrow will have worked at McDonald91裸聊视频檚. He91裸聊视频檒l have done fries more than Kamala Harris ever has,91裸聊视频 Miller said. 91裸聊视频淚 think it shows he connects with hard-working Americans.91裸聊视频
Harris91裸聊视频 campaign did not immediately have a comment on Trump91裸聊视频檚 McDonald91裸聊视频檚 plan.
Representatives for McDonald91裸聊视频檚 did not respond to a message about whether the company had employment records for one of its restaurants 40 years ago.
It91裸聊视频檚 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 residents91裸聊视频 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 91裸聊视频渂irther91裸聊视频 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 Obama91裸聊视频檚 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 tabloid91裸聊视频檚 claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz91裸聊视频檚 father, who was born in Cuba, had links to President John F. Kennedy91裸聊视频檚 assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Cruz and Trump competed for the party91裸聊视频檚 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 Haley91裸聊视频檚 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 McDonald91裸聊视频檚 four decades ago is a 91裸聊视频減uzzling detour,91裸聊视频 but that Trump is 91裸聊视频渘ot above throwing anything on the wall to see if it sticks.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淲hen Donald Trump isn91裸聊视频檛 talking about the economy and illegal immigration, he91裸聊视频檚 off topic about the things that people care about,91裸聊视频 Marson said.
Marson suggested that Trump would be better off talking about the economy and immigration, not something he called 91裸聊视频渙ff topic.91裸聊视频
91裸聊视频淚 don91裸聊视频檛 think there91裸聊视频檚 an undecided voter out there that will respond or that will make their decision based on whether or not Kamala Harris actually worked at McDonald91裸聊视频檚 in the 1980s,91裸聊视频 Marson said.