Former United States President Donald Trump, who is the Republican candidate for the elections on November 5, dedicated part of his Sunday to frying potatoes and delivering orders at one of the McDonald's branches in Pennsylvania.
"Now I have worked 15 minutes more than Kamala at McDonald's," Trump said to the media after finishing, in an activity that has been seen as a critique of his rival, Vice President Harris, whom he has claimed never worked at the popular fast-food chain.
During her campaign for the White House, Harris has spoken about her experiences with the fryer at McDonald's. “I worked there when I was a student,” said the Democrat during an interview last month on MSNBC.
"Part of the reason I talk about having worked at McDonald's is because there are people who work at McDonald's in our country who are trying to raise a family," pointed out Harris.
However, Trump insists, without evidence, that the current number two of the federal government never worked in that kind of business. He mentioned this at a campaign rally last Friday in Detroit, stating that Harris "lied about working at McDonald's."
Trump's advisors have supported these acts. Jason Miller, the chief advisor of the Republican campaign, told reporters on Saturday that Trump would make the stop "so that a candidate in this race can really have worked at McDonald's."
"Since Kamala Harris hasn't done it, tomorrow night President Trump will have worked at McDonald's. He will have cooked more french fries than Kamala Harris," said Miller. "I think that shows he connects with hardworking Americans."
The spokesperson for Harris's campaign, Ian Sams, said that "when Trump feels desperate, the only thing he knows how to do is lie. He can't understand what it's like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to squander them."
Fifteen days before the elections in the United States, the latest forecast from the FiveThirtyEight website, based on the average of national and key state polls, places Trump with a slight lead over Harris and mentions that he has a 52% chance of winning the elections, reports Efe.
Although the Democrat leads in national voter intention, the Republican is more favored by the Electoral College, the system through which states allocate a certain number of electoral votes to the winning candidate. Two weeks ago, the forecast from the same portal gave Harris a 58% chance of defeating Trump.
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