Hilarious: Book Sheds New Light on Kamala Campaign's 'Tailspin' Over McDonald's Employment Claims

Of all the hilarious and unexpected things to happen during the 2024 general election campaign season, the dust-up over Vice President Kamala Harris' claims about once "doing the fries" at McDonald's as a college student - and then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's perfect response to them - ranks in the top five funniest.

I mean, think about it: Who else could pull off exposing Harris's fraudulent "woman of the people" persona as it related to supposed middle-class employment at a fast food restaurant better than Trump, a born showman and businessman whose donning of a McD's apron, slinging of heavily salted French fries, and serving them up hot in a rural Pennsylvania drive-thru to excited customers undoubtedly had even some of his critics mumbling "the man has a point" under their breath?

As it turns out, the behind-the-scenes story of what's being called the "tailspin" that happened in the Harris campaign over her comments about working at McDonald's is quite hilarious as well.

No one, not even the Democrat apologists in the mainstream press (though they tried awfully hard) could ever prove Harris's statement beyond relying on the hearsay of others in her orbit. But since that time, more digging has been done. And in addition to learning that Harris allegedly only worked at a McD's for a couple of weeks, a new book sheds light on how Harris's campaign struggled to figure out ways to respond to the backlash once both the conservative mediasphere and Trump cast doubt on her assertion:

Kamala Harris’s campaign was paralyzed by @freebeacon’s inquiry about her purported McDonald’s job, a new book says.

Best-case scenario is she “did the fries” for two weeks, the book says. Far cry from her campaign story. @CAndersonMO reports https://t.co/TPBY6DwbY9
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 18, 2025

From the story:

Harris's aides "debated for weeks whether they should respond to Trump's attacks about McDonald's," they write, and "spent weeks agonizing" about the decision.
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Harris’s allegedly short stint on the job meant "most advisers didn't want to lean into her time at McDonald's, but it polled well," so Harris did it anyway. When questions emerged, the campaign considered deploying Harris's sister "for a feature story with a lifestyle magazine, but others viewed the story as too risky."
At one point, the campaign caught wind "that at least one major mainstream news outlet was investigating" Harris's McDonald's employment, according to the book. The revelation caused "alarm inside the campaign," which "agreed on a statement rehashing her past comments about her time at McDonald's."
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When Trump himself "did the fries," Harris watched a video of her rival's campaign stop and "told aides he was doing it wrong," the book reveals. "An aide suggested she could point that out in an interview, but she never did."

LOL.

The Free Beacon also noted that the campaign at one point did receive an invite for Harris to visit a McDonald's, but they purportedly didn't want her to look like she was borrowing a page from Trump's book, so it was declined.

There were so many bumbles and stumbles from the Harris campaign, especially down the homestretch, and I look forward to learning more about them from future books and tell-alls. We really did dodge a disaster by not electing her, didn't we?

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