Americanswers... on 5 Live! Donald Trump has a small fries issue with Kamala Harris
Americast
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Americanswers is back on 5 Live to answer your questions as America is just over two weeks away from electing its next president.
With so much attention being paid to swing states and how they might vote this year, are we ignoring other states which could be up for grabs? The team discuss which other states could offer up a surprise for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
One of the swing states in focus is Pennsylvania, where Donald Trump offered up fries to customers in a McDonald's branch over the weekend. Kamala Harris says she worked at the fast-food chain in the summer of 1983, but Trump used his visit to say it wasn't true. So, why is McDonald's coming into focus?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey AmeriCasters, it's getting very close to the big US election and before we get going with |
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| 0:43.3 | Just what you have always wanted. |
| 0:45.2 | Anyway, here's today's episode. |
| 0:47.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:47.9 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello, we've just finished recording our weekly Q&A on 5 Live |
| 0:56.0 | and I need to tell you a bit about what's going on at the moment because Kamla Harris is due to visit three battleground states today, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. |
| 1:05.9 | Donald Trump is heading to North Carolina, which of course was very badly hit by Hurricane |
| 1:10.0 | Helen in September. |
| 1:12.1 | And over the weekend, you've probably seen this already, he was doing a shift |
| 1:16.0 | on the French friar station at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, on the scale of things, |
| 1:21.9 | that is perhaps a small fri issue, get it. But he was very keen to make |
| 1:26.8 | a claim that Carmelah Harris never worked at McDonald's, which she says she did in the summer of 1983. |
| 1:35.0 | It was a big part of her resume that she worked at McDonald's, how tough a job it was. |
| 1:40.0 | She specifically worked at the French Fry, |
| 1:42.0 | where they make the French fries fries and she talked about the heat. |
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