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Harris campaign says McDonald's visit a sign of 'desperation,' while Trump says Harris is lying when she said she worked there as a student

Advertisement 1 Share this Story : McDonald's reveals who it supports after Trump mocks Harris by working at a drive-thru McDonald's reveals who it supports after Trump mocks Harris by working at a drive-thru Harris campaign says McDonald's visit a sign of 'desperation,' while Trump says Harris is lying when she said she worked there as a student Author of the article: Article content McDonald's Corp. has responded to Donald Trump's visit to one of its restaurants in Pennsylvania on the weekend by revealing that it does not endorse such visits and is not taking sides in the upcoming U.S. presidential election Advertisement 2 Article content McDonald's reveals who it supports after Trump mocks Harris by working at a drive-thru Back to video “McDonald's does not endorse candidates for elected office and that remains true in this race for the next president,” the company said in an internal message reported by Bloomberg News . “We are not red or blue — we are golden.” The fast-food incident began after Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris started mentioning in campaign ads and interviews that she had worked at the golden arches when she was a student . The Trump campaign accused her of lying about her work experience. McDonald's has said it doesn't have complete records going back to the 1980s, when Harris said she worked there. Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, got into the fray when he revealed that he too had worked at McDonald's, and had even been named an Employee of the Month. Advertisement 3 Article content Advertisement 4 Article content Trump upped the ante on Sunday when he stopped by a McDonald's location in Feasterville-Trevose, a suburb of Philadelphia , during which he cooked food, bagged fries and worked the drive-though, according to his campaign. The restaurant itself was closed to sit-in diners during Trump's visit, the BBC reported . Pennsylvania is considered one of several key swing states that could determine the outcome of the election. Advertisement 5 Article content According to Bloomberg, McDonald's internal message noted: “Upon learning of the former president's request, we approached it through the lens of our core values: we open our doors to everyone.” The restaurant said it had also invited Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz , for a visit. In a statement to the BBC, Harris spokesman Ian Sams called Trump's stunt a sign of “desperation.” “All he knows how to do is lie,” Sams said. “He can't understand what it's like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.” Harris's campaign said the vice-president worked the cash register, ice cream machine and fry machine at a McDonald's on Central Avenue in Alameda, Calif., in the summer of 1983, sending news outlets scrambling to fact-check the story. The BBC said it spoke to an employee who remembered a lot of people who worked alongside him at the restaurant at that time but not Harris. However, the New York Times spoke to a high school friend of Harris, Wanda Kagan, who said she remembered her working at McDonald's around that time. Advertisement 6 Article content Trump's history with McDonald's is arguably more famous than Harris's. In 2002, he appeared in an advertisement for the fast-food giant , extolling the virtues of its $1 food-item menu to a McDonald's employee who is eventually revealed to be Grimace. More recently, Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, wrote in his 2022 memoir, Breaking History, that when Trump contracted COVID-19 in 2020, ordering from the fast food chain signalled that he was on the way to recovery. “I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald's Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” Kushner wrote Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our newsletters here Article content Share this article in your social network Share this Story : McDonald's reveals who it supports after Trump mocks Harris by working at a drive-thru Comments Join the Conversation Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion. Please keep comments relevant and respectful. Comments may take up to an hour to appear on the site. You will receive an email if there is a reply to your comment, an update to a thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information. Latest National Stories News Near Elliot Lake Featured Local Savings

Wayne Moser's driver's licence had expired, and he didn't have any other photo ID with him. But proof of vaccination will work in a pinch, the 66-year-old recently learned

Advertisement 1 Share this Story : Alberta man 'shocked' to learn COVID vaccine card could have saved him from missing his flight Alberta man 'shocked' to learn COVID vaccine card could have saved him from missing his flight Wayne Moser's driver's licence had expired, and he didn't have any other photo ID with him. But proof of vaccination will work in a pinch, the 66-year-old recently learned Author of the article: Article content All Wayne Moser wanted to do was get on a flight to Thunder Bay to see his elderly in-laws. Advertisement 2 Article content Alberta man 'shocked' to learn COVID vaccine card could have saved him from missing his flight Back to video The 66-year-old retired Calgarian was at the airport last week with a boarding pass on his phone for a WestJet flight from Calgary to Thunder Bay. But when the airline employee at the gate checked it against his driver's licence, she discovered that the document had expired two weeks earlier. “They don't let you know that your driver's licence is coming up for renewal,” Moser said in a call to the National Post. “It's a five-year period. That's where they nailed me.” The gate attendant told Moser that he couldn't use an expired photo ID to board, and so he dug through his wallet and emerged with his Alberta health card, Alberta Blue Cross and some credit cards. But that wasn't good enough either. “She said that won't work,” Moser recalled. Advertisement 3 Article content Then she asked if he had his passport with him. “My passport's at home because I'm flying in Canada,” he said. “Why bring my passport?” It seemed like he was out of options, until the attendant said there was one other thing. “I said what's that? She said do you have your COVID vaccine card?” He didn't. Moser, like most people, got the vaccine, but with proof of vaccination no longer required for travel purposes, he didn't have the paperwork any more. “Six months before all this I was going through my phone and I saw that picture of my vaccine certificate and I got rid of it,” he recalled. “I thought, what do I need this for?” But it turns out that even an old COVID vaccine certificate can function as government-issued ID (or as Moser cheekily put it “a get out of jail free card”) if other options fail. Advertisement 4 Article content A WestJet representative told the Post: “ Guests travelling domestically within Canada may board with two pieces of valid non-photo identification issued by a Canadian federal, provincial or territorial government, both of which must include their name and at least one of which must include their date of birth.” She continued: “A vaccination certificate does qualify for use as a form of government-issued non-photo identification, provided that it includes the guest's name as it is written on their boarding pass.” Most Canadians won't run into this requirement, since most travellers will be carrying photo identification in the form of a (non-expired) driver's licence, a passport or a NEXUS card. Advertisement 5 Article content Moser was unfortunate in having none of those. And of the other identification on his person, the Alberta health card doesn't have a photo (it's still issued on paper in fact), the Blue Cross card is not government-issued, and the credit cards are neither. “I was totally shocked,” he said. “I'm just a regular guy trying to get to Thunder Bay. I hadn't seen (my wife's) parents since before COVID, and they're in their nineties. Did I miss my opportunity to see them? I don't know.” Moser's wife ended up flying to Thunder Bay without him. He applied to WestJet for a refund on the return portion of the ticket, but after service charges wound up with a credit of just $39. Moser says he'll be flying WestJet again on a trip to Hawaii in November. “If this comes out maybe they'll blacklist me, I don't know,” he said with a laugh. “Or maybe they'll feel really bad and give me a free flight.” One thing for certain is when he shows up for that trip, he'll have his passport at the ready. And his up-to-date driver's licence, just in case. “I've got my new one already.” Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here Article content Share this article in your social network Share this Story : Alberta man 'shocked' to learn COVID vaccine card could have saved him from missing his flight Comments Join the Conversation Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion. Please keep comments relevant and respectful. Comments may take up to an hour to appear on the site. You will receive an email if there is a reply to your comment, an update to a thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information. Latest National Stories News Near Elliot Lake Featured Local Savings

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