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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: Harris & Cheney blast 'unserious' Trump after he pretends to work at McDonald's

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Versant, Government, Senate

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: Vice President Harris holds events with Liz Cheney in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Also, early voting begins in Texas amid the tight Senate race. And Democrats try to prevent an election spoiler from Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Sarah Longwell, Ben Wikler, and Rep. Colin Allred join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Well, with 15 days until election day, and more than 14 million early votes already submitted,

0:06.4

Donald Trump decided yesterday was the perfect day to highlight the peculiar biographical fact that he has never

0:17.3

worked a day in his life. Donald McDonald made a special appearance at a completely rigged photo-up version of a McDonald's

0:26.0

drive-thru in which the customers were actually just posing as customers having been pre-selected

0:30.4

and pre-screened by the Secret Service to take their positions in the drive-thru

0:34.4

line of a McDonald's that was actually completely closed down.

0:39.7

Just so Donald Trump could pretend for once in in his life, for a few minutes, pretend to work for a living.

0:47.0

The way Kamala Harris once did when she was working her way through school at McDonald's just like her husband

0:55.0

Doug Emhoff worked his way through school at McDonald's.

1:02.0

At any point in your life have you served to all beef patties special sauce lettuce

1:07.8

lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun working at a McDonald's yes or

1:12.4

no that's it.

1:13.0

I have.

1:14.8

The McDonald's that Donald McDonald's closed down yesterday so that he could pretend to

1:20.0

work is in Pennsylvania, of course.

1:23.6

A crucial Electoral College swing state

1:25.6

where Vice President Kamal Harris began

1:28.1

her day campaigning with Republican Liz Cheney. In this election, and especially here in Pennsylvania, we have the opportunity to tell the whole world who we are.

1:42.0

And we have the chance to say, you know, we're going to

1:46.2

reject cruelty. We're going to reject the kind of vile vitriol that we've seen from Donald Trump.

1:55.0

We're going to reject the misogyny that we've seen from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. And we have the chance in this race to elect somebody who you know is going to defend the rule of law. You know Vice President

2:15.1

Harris is going to defend our Constitution. We have the chance to remind people

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