{"id":24876,"date":"2024-10-21T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=24876"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T09:56:31","slug":"trump-serves-at-mcdonald-to-galvanise-support-in-final-days-of-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/10\/trump-serves-at-mcdonald-to-galvanise-support-in-final-days-of-election-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump serves at McDonald to galvanise support in final days of election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; With just two weeks before the polls, Donald Trump has taken his US presidential election campaign to a McDonald&#8217;s in Pennsylvania, where he served fries to voters and answered questions from reporters through a drive-through window.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Local police closed the busy streets around the McDonald&#8217;s \u2014 which CNN reported was closed for the event \u2014 as crowds gathered, passing motorists honked their horns and Trump supporters waved flags, held signs and took pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The former president stopped by one of the fast-food chain\u2019s Pennsylvania franchises during his Sunday swing through the Keystone State, where he swapped his suit jacket for an apron to work as a fry attendant. He later handed customers food through the drive-thru window at the restaurant \u2014 which was closed for the event \u2014 telling them he had made it himself and that it was all on him.<\/p>\n<p>Manning the fry machine is the same job Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0has said she held as a young woman, a biographical detail revealed\u00a0during her first campaign for president. It has since become a centerpiece of the middle-class origin story she has made key to her pitch to voters as the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2gpelst000i3b6mpkxvvzmz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Trump over the years has repeatedly questioned the biographies of his rivals, often without merit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2gpelst000l3b6m2t6tqylq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">During a 2007 deposition, lawyers caught Trump lying at least 30 times over two days, mostly over\u00a0mundane facts about his businesses such as the size of his workforce, a payment for speaking fees and the cost of his golf membership.<\/p>\n<h6 data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2gpelst000l3b6m2t6tqylq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two weeks before the polls, Donald Trump has taken his US presidential election campaign to a McDonald&#8217;s in Pennsylvania, where he served fries to voters and answered questions from reporters through a drive-through window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,194,982,234,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-international","category-us","category-headline"],"views":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24917,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24876\/revisions\/24917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}