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Trump took orders and cooked fries at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, attempting to cast doubt on Harris' earlier employment at the chain

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -18% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : In a statement provided to Business Insider on Sunday, the owner of the McDonald's location that Trump visited said he was honored to "showcase" the restaurant chain.
67% : And in January 2019, Trump hosted the college championship-winning Clemson University football team at the White House, where he ordered an assortment of fast-food staples from McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Domino's Pizza for the players.
56% : The Harris campaign has promoted the vice president's experience at McDonald's as a part of a middle-class upbringing that might resonate with millions of Americans -- and that separates her from the affluent life led by Trump.
53% : After landing at the Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday, Trump and his team traveled to a McDonald's franchise in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, where he donned an official employee apron and began taking orders from customers waiting in the drive-thru line.
45% : "When Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie," Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams told The New York Times.
39% : For weeks, Trump has attempted to sow doubt -- without providing evidence -- that Vice President Kamala Harris ever worked at McDonald's, which has become a key part of her biography.
33% : After winning the requisite number of GOP delegates needed to secure the party's 2016 presidential nomination, Trump was photographed eating a McDonald's Big Mac on his private jet.
30% : But when Biden exited the race in July, and Harris became the nominee, she quickly went to battle with Trump on the economy and succeeded in eroding his once huge advantage on the issue in key swing states.
25% : Trump has sought to promote his handling of the economy, an issue he used to his advantage when President Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee.
13% : "Trump senior advisor Jason Miller also cast doubt on Harris' McDonald's employment on Saturday, telling reporters that Trump was going to the restaurant "so that one candidate in this race could have actually worked at McDonald's.
12% : "Harris and Trump remain locked in a historically tight race.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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