Vice President Kamala Harris busted out laughing as MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle asked about former President Donald Trump’s recent rants about Harris, McDonald’s, and working the fry station.
In August, Harris released a campaign ad stating that she worked at the ubiquitous fast-food chain while she was in college. The ad sparked attacks from critics who claimed—without evidence—that she never worked there and even that McDonald’s confirmed this (they did not).
Trump has made it part of his stump speech to attack Harris with this baseless claim and now insists he will spend half an hour working the fry station within the next week just to see how it feels.
During an exclusive interview with Ruhle on Wednesday night’s special edition of MSNBC’s All In, the VP began laughing even before Ruhle got her question out in recognition of the topic.
Ruhle asked Harris to settle the question of her college employment once and for all — and did so by reciting the iconic ingredients immortalized in the Big Mac jingle:
RUHLE: And I want to just ask you about a little job and a big job.
HARRIS: OK.
RUHLE: The first one, just a fact-check.
HARRIS: OK.
RUHLE: Because your opponent almost every day…
HARRIS: There is no little job.
RUHLE: OK.
HARRIS: There is no such thing as a little job.
RUHLE: OK. Fair, fair.
(LAUGHTER)
RUHLE: Because your opponent almost every day seems to be talking about this. So I just want to ask you, yes or no…
(CROSSTALK)
RUHLE: … at any point in your life, have you served two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun…
(LAUGHTER)
HARRIS: On a sesame seed bun?
RUHLE: … working at McDonald’s, yes or no? That’s it.
HARRIS: I have.
RUHLE: OK, now the other job. Now the other one.
HARRIS: And — but it was not a small job. Like, I did fries.
RUHLE: OK.
HARRIS: I mean, I — you know.
(CROSSTALK)
HARRIS: But I did.
(CROSSTALK)
RUHLE: … time.
But then let me ask about a big job.
HARRIS: But, to your point, if you don’t mind, before you get to the big job…
RUHLE: Please.
HARRIS: … it’s a — there’s a — part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family — I worked there as a student, I was a kid — who work there trying to raise families and pay rent on that.
And I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility then is to meet those needs.
RUHLE: Then to the big job.
You have laid out policy in great detail.
HARRIS: Yes.
RUHLE: But the economy is an unpredictable beast. And you are running for a job that takes extraordinary instinct and guts.
HARRIS: Yes.
RUHLE: When’s the last time you had to make a gut decision? This here is very prescribed. It’s very controlled.
HARRIS: Yes.
Probably the biggest gut decision I have made most recently is to choose my running mate, yes. There were lots of good, incredible candidates. And, ultimately, that came down to a gut decision.
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