Donald Trump served french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Sunday, calling Kamala Harris “a liar and fraud” for claiming she once worked for the fast food chain—meanwhile, his Democratic counterpart was trying to make amends for her anti-Christian gaffes.
While serving customers at the take-out window at a McDonald’s in a suburb of Philadelphia, Trump encountered support from a constituency the Democrats do their best to paint as anti-Trump: immigrants. A now-viral video shows an Indian couple shaking Trump’s hand and thanking him for “making it possible for ordinary people like us to meet you.” “You’re not ordinary,” the former president responded.
Another customer asked Trump to “please don’t let the United States become Brazil, my native Brazil.”
Such successful stints in ‘retail politics’—that is, small-scale campaigning where the candidate can target voters on a one-to-one level—have helped Trump make significant inroads in key swing states like Pennsylvania, where some polls say he is now leading for the first time. The Democrats’ appetite for self-destruction has also done much to help the GOP.
Meanwhile, Harris was in Georgia on Sunday visiting two churches in a fairly blatant attempt to win back the Christian vote, after she told two Trump supporters who believe “Christ is King” and “Jesus is Lord” that they were at the “wrong rally.”
Predictably, Republicans grasped this opportunity to tell their Christian constituents: “Kamala has made it clear that she DOES NOT want YOUR vote.”
Harris also last week skipped the renowned annual Al Smith dinner, a Catholic charity fundraising event traditionally attended by both presidential candidates in election years. Trump described this as “deeply disrespectful to the event and in particular to our great Catholic community.”
After she was done in church, Harris and her team—operating yet again in damage control mode—turned their attention to alienating supporters of Israel. Indeed, while the Democratic nominee was quick to shut down Christian voters at a rally on Thursday, she took more care in responding to a pro-Palestine heckler at another event and even appeared to suggest she agrees that Israel is committing “genocide.”
After the protester said “you aren’t speaking about genocide … what about the genocide,” Harris responded:
What he is talking about, it’s real. That is not the subject I came to discuss today, but it’s real. And I respect his voice. (Emphasis added.)
Her team was then, once again, on the back foot, telling the Jerusalem Post it is not “the view” of Harris that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. But for many, the damage had already been done. As former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman told the New York Post:
Many, including myself, always suspected that she held this warped, antisemitic view of Israel’s self-defence against Hamas barbarism. But the cat is now out of the bag.
