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Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald's

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -16% Negative

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67% : "It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast," Trump said with a grin.
64% : Trump works the fry station and holds a drive-thru news conference at a Pennsylvania McDonald'sMICHELLE L. PRICE and MARC LEVYUpdated October 20, 2024 at 8:51 PM1 / 20Election 2024 TrumpRepublican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, hands off an order of fries after working alongside an employee during a visit to McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.
63% : "He said in a statement that was why he accepted Trump's request "to observe the transformative working experience that 1 in 8 Americans have had: a job at McDonald's."As Trump put it reporters when he got off his plane: "I really wanted to do this all my life.
58% : Cruz and Trump competed for the party's 2016 nomination.
52% : "Trump visited a McDonalds in Feasterville-Trevose, which is part of Bucks County, a swing area northeast of Philadelphia.
51% : Trump is a longtime aficionado, partial to Big Macs and Filet-o-Fish sandwiches; his staff often picks up McDonald's and serves it on his plane.
50% : Trump, who still refuses to accept that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden, has said he wants a victory this year to be so overwhelming that the results are "too big to rig.
47% : Trump said.
46% : "Trump has fixated in recent weeks on the summer job Harris said she held in college, working the cash register and making fries at McDonald's while attending Howard University in Washington.
45% : Authorities cordoned off the restaurant as a crowd a couple blocks long gathered, sometimes 10- to 15-deep, across the street straining to catch a glimpse of Trump.
43% : After an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in the oil, the former president took his turn and even helped fill some takeout bags after a bit.
41% : It's far from the first time that Trump has promoted baseless claims.
40% : Later Sunday, Trump is attending an evening town hall in Lancaster before catching the Pittsburgh Steelers home game against the New York Jets.
34% : Trump has long gone after opponents based on their personal history, particularly women and racial minorities.
32% : "When Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie," Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday.
30% : Trump has promoted false and baseless claims throughout his campaign
28% : Barrett Marson, a Republican strategist in Arizona, said using a campaign visit to focus on the claims about McDonald's four decades ago is a "puzzling detour," but that Trump is "not above throwing anything on the wall to see if it sticks.
26% : Marson suggested that Trump would be better off talking about the economy and immigration, not something he called "off topic.
23% : Trump said during his presidential debate with Harris that immigrants who had settled in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets.
15% : Trump says the vice president has "lied about working" there, but not offered evidence for saying that.
14% : During his first run for president, Trump repeated a tabloid's claims that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's father, who was born in Cuba, had links to President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
13% : Before he ran for president, Trump was a leading voice of the "birther" conspiracy that baselessly claimed President Barack Obama was from Africa, was not an American citizen and therefore was ineligible to be president.
9% : In January of this year, when Trump was facing Nikki Haley, his former U.N. ambassador, in the Republican primary, he shared on his social media network a post with false claims that Haley's parents were not citizens when she was born, therefore making her ineligible to be president.
4% : Trump used it to raise his own political profile, demanding to see Obama's birth certificate and five years after Obama did so, Trump finally admitted that Obama was born in the United States.

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