<p>On Monday, Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> (R-OH) served up a sizzling response to how the media covered former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s visit to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mcdonalds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McDonald&#8217;s</a> restaurant in the swing state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania</a> over the weekend. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/20/trump-mcdonalds-minimum-wage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dubbed</a> it &#8220;stage-managed campaign stop&#8221; — a particular description which Trump&#8217;s VP pick rebuked.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that these people are accusing him of a &#8216;stage-managed&#8217; thing — of course, the president has to have security because there have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-finds-secret-service-responsible-for-preventable-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two attempts on his life</a> in the last eight weeks,&#8221; Vance said during a Fox News interview. &#8220;He can&#8217;t just walk into a McDonald&#8217;s and sign a W-9 and actually go on the payroll. That&#8217;s just not how this works, especially given the security threats on his life.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump showed how to connect with voters in Pennsylvania yesterday better than anyone else could &#8211; from the french fry station at McDonald&#39;s to the Steelers game on Sunday night. <a href="https://t.co/lKlLKlEvk8">pic.twitter.com/lKlLKlEvk8</a></p>
<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1848382642154025080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>While in the McDonald&#8217;s in Feasterville, Bucks County, near Philadelphia, Trump put on an apron, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-works-fry-cooker-at-mcdonalds-roasts-kamala-ive-now-worked-15-minutes-more-than-she-has" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worked the fry cooker</a>, and even handed out food at the drive-thru window. He also talked with people, including journalists and employees.</p>
<p>Trump was doing what &#8220;I think what he does best, which is just being among the people, talking to them about what they care about,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;He showed I think genuine interest in the employees and their lives and where they came from and what they were actually doing in their job, and that&#8217;s something you can&#8217;t stage, and you can&#8217;t fake. That is just a genuine person that Donald Trump is.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vance stressed that these interactions are &#8220;why I think a lot of working people, even though, of course, he&#8217;s a successful real estate billionaire, have this emotional connection to Donald Trump. You can&#8217;t make up that kind of connection.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also during his visit to McDonald&#8217;s, Trump took jabs at his 2024 rival, Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, over her saying that she held a job at McDonald&#8217;s while she was a college student in the 1980s. The Washington Free Beacon and others have <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/i-did-fries-kamala-harris-claims-she-worked-at-mcdonalds-but-she-never-mentioned-it-until-she-ran-for-president-did-she-really-toil-beneath-the-golden-arches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised questions</a> about the claim, noting a lack of documentation to back it up.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walz-trump-disrespected-mcdonalds-employees-by-serving-fries-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Tim Walz Says Trump ‘Disrespected’ McDonald’s Employees By Serving Fries There</a></strong></p>
<p>Vance <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4OIOzr4S4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he and Trump find it to be &#8220;weird&#8221; that Harris has &#8220;been able to produce no evidence that she worked at McDonald&#8217;s, and she didn&#8217;t even talk about it until 2019&#8221; — when she ran her first campaign for the presidency.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s ultimately true here,&#8221; Vance added, &#8220;but it&#8217;s interesting where the media will try to nitpick and micromanage every single thing that me or Donald Trump has said. And yet they just buy into this narrative&#8221; from Harris.</p>

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