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Trump works the fry station, holds drive-thru news conference at McDonald's

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -10% Negative

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78% : "He joked about getting one reporter ice cream and when another asked what message he had for Harris on her 60th birthday on Sunday, Trump said, "I would say, 'Happy birthday, Kamala,'" adding, "I think I'll get her some flowers.
78% : "He joked about getting one reporter ice cream and when another asked what message he had for Harris on her 60th birthday on Sunday, Trump said, "I would say, 'Happy birthday, Kamala,'" adding, "I think I'll get her some flowers.
65% : requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast," Trump said with a grin, putting away his suit jacket and wearing an apron over his shirt and tie.
61% : "It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast," Trump said with a grin, putting away his suit jacket and wearing an apron over his shirt and tie.
58% : Cruz and Trump competed for the party's 2016 nomination.
58% : Cruz and Trump competed for the party's 2016 nomination.
51% : Trump, a well-known fan of fast food and a notorious germophobe, expressed amazement that he didn't have to touch the fries with his hands."It
51% : Trump, a well-known fan of fast food and a notorious germophobe, expressed amazement that he didn't have to touch the fries with his hands.
48% : Trump is especially partial to McDonald's Big Macs and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
48% : Trump is especially partial to McDonald's Big Macs and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.
46% : Related video above: Harris and Trump narrow campaign message to voters in Pennsylvania ralliesAs reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a scoop.
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.
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.
44% : "When aides finally urged him to wrap things up so he could hit the road to his next event, Trump said, "Wasn't that a strange place to do a news conference?"Trump has long questioned Harris' story of working at McDonald'sTrump 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 in college.
44% : Related video above: Harris and Trump narrow campaign message to voters in Pennsylvania ralliesAs reporters and aides watched, an employee showed Trump how to dunk baskets of fries in oil, salt the fries and put them into boxes using a scoop.
41% : Later Sunday, Trump was attending an evening town hall in Lancaster before catching the Pittsburgh Steelers home game against the New York Jets.
41% : Later Sunday, Trump was attending an evening town hall in Lancaster before catching the Pittsburgh Steelers home game against the New York Jets.
39% : The visit came as he's tried to counter Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' accounts on the campaign of working at the fast-food chain while in college, an experience that Trump has claimed -- without offering evidence -- never happened.
39% : The visit came as he's tried to counter Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' accounts on the campaign of working at the fast-food chain while in college, an experience that Trump has claimed -- without offering evidence -- never happened.
38% : "When aides finally urged him to wrap things up so he could hit the road to his next event, Trump said, "Wasn't that a strange place to do a news conference?"Trump has long questioned Harris' story of working at McDonald'sTrump 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 in college.
35% : After serving bags of takeout to people in the drive-thru lane, Trump leaned out of the window, still wearing the apron, to take questions from the media staged outside.
35% : After serving bags of takeout to people in the drive-thru lane, Trump leaned out of the window, still wearing the apron, to take questions from the media staged outside.
34% : And Trump has continued to promote baseless claims during this campaign.
34% : And Trump has continued to promote baseless claims during this campaign.
32% : "When Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie," Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday.
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.
28% : "Trump did not directly answer a question about whether he might support increased minimum wages after seeing McDonald's employees in action but said, "These people work hard.
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% : Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie," Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams said Sunday.
26% : "Trump has long spread groundless claims about his opponents based on their personal history, particularly women and racial minorities.
19% : Trump said during his presidential debate with Harris that immigrants who had settled in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets -- a claim he suggested in an interview Saturday was still true even though he could provide no confirmation.
19% : Trump said during his presidential debate with Harris that immigrants who had settled in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets -- a claim he suggested in an interview Saturday was still true even though he could provide no confirmation.
15% : Trump says the vice president has "lied about working" there but has not offered evidence for claiming that.
15% : Trump says the vice president has "lied about working" there but has not offered evidence for claiming that.
14% : Before he ran for president, Trump was a leading voice of the "birther" conspiracy that baselessly claimed former President Barack Obama was from Africa, was not an American citizen and therefore was ineligible to be president.
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.
14% : Before he ran for president, Trump was a leading voice of the "birther" conspiracy that baselessly claimed former President Barack Obama was from Africa, was not an American citizen and therefore was ineligible to be president.
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.
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.
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.
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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