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A stint at McDonald’s in one’s youth is the cornerstone of the American dream and the ultimate signifier of middle-class relatability. Kamala Harris’s claimed stint at McDonald’s, however, may have been fabricated, per a new report from the Washington Free Beacon.
NEW: Dems made a huge deal at the DNC about Kamala Harris once working at McDonalds in the summer of 1983. But did she really?@ChuckRossDC, @SaysSimonson and I performed an exhaustive review of the facts:
1: We badgered McDonalds, which employs a full-time archivist, for close…
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) August 29, 2024
A 1987 job application which asked Harris to list every job she’d had in the past decade didn’t mention McDonald’s, where she claimed to have worked in 1983, though it did list another job she’d held for only a month, the outlet reported. She never mentioned it in the two books she wrote, nor did her unauthorised biographers. While the specific Baskin-Robbins at which a young Barack Obama once worked was subject to a media frenzy in 2008, no one seems to know where the McDonald’s at which Harris worked is. Will this take the heat off Tim Walz’s “stolen valour”?
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