Working girl — not.
/Two days ago, serious doubts were raised about Kampallawalla’s claim to have worked behind a McDonald’s counter: in short, she never did. A silly issue, perhaps, but her handlers made it relevant at the DNC by highlighting her “experience” under the golden arches as part of their creation of an artificial “origin story” for their girl, some kind of evidence that she was just a poor working girl, raised in poverty in Oakland (both her parents are PhDs, and she grew up in Berkeley and Toronto); in short, having adopted Trump’s issues as her own, she has now tried to appropriate JD Vance’s authentic life story for her own use. That attempt has not gone well.
DEVELOPING: Kamala campaign has stopped referencing her alleged job at McDonald's and won't respond to media questions seeking the location of the McDonald's store and the dates of her employment at McDonald's, which appears nowhere in her memoirs or early resumes...developing...
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) August 30, 2024