Donald Trump appears to be focused at least as much on Kamala Harris' fast food experience as any other issue.
With 40 days left in the election cycle, Trump appears to have one true obsession, which he now focuses on every day: Kamala Harris' work experience at McDonald's while in college.
Even by Trump standards, this has become rather creepy.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-kamala-harris-mcdonalds-obsession-creepy-election-2024-rcna172701
Donald Trump’s latest campaign event in North Carolina — a state the former president has focused considerable attention on lately — was ostensibly supposed to focus on manufacturing and job creation. But while the Republican did have a few things to say about his intended topic, he also strayed from his script to talk about one of his favorite subjects.
Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump declared, “never worked at McDonald’s. It was a fake story. It was a fake story; the press now refuses to write it because it’s so, you know, this is a simple one. She said she worked at McDonald’s and she didn’t. ... It was a lie. She never worked at McDonald’s over the hot french fries.”
The GOP candidate quickly added that he plans to go to a McDonald’s “in two weeks” — it’s always “two weeks,” isn’t it? — and he intends to “work the french fries.” Trump concluded, “I will have worked longer and harder at McDonald’s than she did if I do that even for half an hour.”
If the rhetoric seemed at all familiar, it’s because Trump has been obsessed to an unhealthy degree with the vice president having worked at McDonald’s as a college student.......
In other words, with fewer than six weeks before Election Day, the Republican nominee appears to be focused at least as much on this issue as anything else.
That, of course, is utterly bonkers, in part because there’s literally no evidence that Harris lied, in part because Trump hasn’t even tried to substantiate his attack with anything other than repetition, and in part because his obsession isn’t likely to move the electoral needle.
The broader circumstances, meanwhile, continue to be noteworthy. The Democratic nominee has been involved in public service for decades, working as a prosecutor, a state attorney general, a U.S. senator, and a vice president. If the GOP candidate and his team are eager to scrutinize her record, there should be plenty of accurate things to choose from.
So why is it that Trump has relied so heavily on made-up nonsense? If Harris is as bad as her partisan critics claim, why can’t Trump simply tell the truth and shift his focus away from her college-era fast-food experience?
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