McDonald’s has become a powerful symbol for Democrats
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If elected this fall, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will usher in many “firsts” in American history. Among them: The first White House couple to have worked at McDonald’s.
If elected this fall, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff will usher in many “firsts” in American history. Among them: The first White House couple to have worked at McDonald’s. With that line on their resumes, Harris and Emhoff share a link to 1 in 8 Americans who have worked at McDonald’s – 13% of the country – according to the company. Broadcasting that shared history, as they have this week at the Democratic National Convention, has become a powerful way for Democrats to burnish their working-class credentials and, without even mentioning their rivals’ names, aim to make former President Donald Trump and the Republican ticket appear elitist and out of touch. In several speeches and campaign ads, Democrats have been eager to remind voters that Harris, raised by a single mom in a middle class neighborhood, had a summer job slinging fries to help her pay for college. Former President Bill Clinton, whose own legendary McD’s habit became memorable fodder for “Saturday Night Live” in the 1990s, joked in his convention speech Wednesday night that he’ll be happy to see Harris elected because “at last, she’ll break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.” Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett was more direct in distinguishing Harris’s background from Trump’s, who got his start in real estate with what he has called a “small” $1 million loan from his father.
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