LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday is expected to visit a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania as he continues to criticize Democrat Kamala Harris and her claim that she worked at the fast-food chain while in college.
His plan is to visit a McDonald’s 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 claims she held in college, working the cash register and making fries at McDonald’s while attending Howard University in Washington. Trump doesn’t believe the vice president ever worked there.
Trump repeated the assertion Friday night at a campaign rally in Detroit, saying Harris “lied about working at McDonald’s.”
“That’s like not a big thing, but can I be honest with you, it’s terrible,” Trump said.
Harris, who was a California prosecutor before becoming a senator and vice president, raises her McDonald’s experience as a way to show she understands working-class struggles.
In an interview last month on MSNBC, the vice president pushed back on Trump’s claims, saying she did work at the fast-food chain four decades ago when she was in college.
Trump’s senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters on Saturday that Trump would be making the stop “so that one candidate in this race can actually have worked at McDonald’s.”
“Since Kamala Harris has not, President Trump by the end of tomorrow will have worked at McDonald’s. He’ll have done fries more than Kamala Harris ever has,” Miller said. “I think it shows he connects with hard-working Americans.”
Harris’ campaign did not immediately have a comment on Trump’s McDonald’s plan.
Representatives for McDonald’s did not respond to a message about whether the company had employment records for one of its restaurants 40 years ago.
Meantime, Kamala Harris went to church in an Atlanta suburb Sunday, addressing the faithful and encouraging Black congregants to vote as part of a nationwide campaign push known as “souls to the polls.”
The Democratic nominee for president attended services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, where many women in the audience work pink to promote awareness of breast cancer. Harris plans a midday stop at Divine Faith Ministries International in Jonesboro, joined by singer Stevie Wonder, before taping an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton that will air later Sunday on MSNBC.
The vice president’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is scheduled to go to church in Saginaw, Michigan, and his wife, Gwen, will be at a service in Las Vegas.
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