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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump and Harris Put McDonald’s on the Campaign Menu

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump cooks fries for his fans at a McDonald's drive-thru in Pennsylvania, as Kamala Harris's supporters call his restaurant campaign stop a stunt. But theatrics are part of politics, and now the public is being served a piping-hot debate on the minimum wage and "joint employer" rules for franchises, while three Democratic Senators all but accuse McDonald's of price gouging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:21.0

this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.6

Donald Trump goes behind the counter at a Pennsylvania McDonald's

0:28.7

restaurant while taking jabs at Kamala Harris

0:31.8

and raising the minimum wage and franchise policies as

0:35.3

points of political debate. Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:40.1

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurn and Alicia Finley.

0:45.9

A striking image from the presidential campaign trail this weekend was Donald Trump in his trademark

0:51.8

red tie in a blue apron manning the fry machine at a

0:55.8

McDonald's restaurant in Bucks County, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia, handing bags of

1:01.6

food through the drive-thru window chatting up supporters.

1:05.6

The genesis of this event was Trump's repeated claim that Kamala Harris is lying when

1:11.9

she says that she worked at a McDonald's restaurant briefly in college some 40 years ago.

1:17.0

Here is Kamala Harris telling that story in 2019.

1:20.0

I worked in McDonald's. I was a student when I was working in McDonald's. There was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table, and keep the bills paid by the end of the month. But the reality of

1:35.5

McDonald's is that a majority of the folks who are working there today are

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