‘She Greeted Every Person With That Thousand-Watt Smile’: Watch All the Times Dems Touted Kamala’s Alleged McDonald’s Gig

For Democratic lawmakers and pundits, Kamala Harris’s alleged summer job at McDonald’s was proof of the presidential hopeful’s working-class bona fides. For Harris and her campaign, it was a major source of anxiety.

Democrats from Bill Clinton to Jasmine Crockett gushed over the job during the Democratic National Convention last summer. “When she was young, she worked at McDonald’s and she greeted every person with that thousand-watt smile and said, ‘How can I help you?’” Clinton gushed. “And now she’s at the pinnacle of power, and she is still asking, ‘How can I help you?’” Crockett, meanwhile, used the gig to bash Harris’s opponent, Donald Trump: “One candidate worked at McDonald’s while she was in college at an HBCU,” she said from the convention stage. “The other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and helped his daddy in the family business.”

The comments were part of a push from Team Harris to place Harris’s alleged time under the Golden Arches at the center of the campaign. A Washington Free Beacon report that found zero evidence Harris worked for the fast food giant threw a wrench in that strategy. Trump began accusing Harris of embellishing her biography, a development that sent the Harris team into a tailspin, according to 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf.