Bill Clinton stopped by a Georgia McDonald’s while stumping for Kamala Harris.
However, the employee at the front counter initially confused Clinton for Joe Biden.
“Are you Joe?” she asked.
“The boss was stumping for @KamalaHarris in Georgia and had to stop by the old stomping grounds,
@McDonalds,” Angel Ureña, Deputy Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, commented.
WATCH:
The boss was stumping for @KamalaHarris in Georgia and had to stop by the old stomping grounds, @McDonalds. pic.twitter.com/CannimWqJB
— Angel Ureña (@angelurena) October 13, 2024
X users reacted to Clinton’s McDonald’s visit:
Crypt keeper. https://t.co/eHWjHJ06BR
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) October 14, 2024
You could probably argue that Bill Clinton spent more time in a McDonald’s today than Kamala Harris has ever spent in one https://t.co/QkS7S8g3qZ
— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) October 14, 2024
She didn't know who he was.
Kamala's campaign is a complete disaster.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 14, 2024
The woman thought he was Joe Biden🤣😂🤣
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) October 14, 2024
Imagine a campaign running so badly you need to use presidents from 10 years and 25 years prior to stump for you.
— Mike Peterson (@MikePeterson17) October 14, 2024
11Alive reports:
Former President Clinton famously made the occasional McDonald’s stop while campaigning, to the point where it was parodied on Saturday Night Live. There’s even a McDonald’s in Little Rock, Arkansas he’d frequent with a plaque dedicated to him.
In Sunday’s encounter, wearing a blue “USA” jacket, he approached the counter and spoke with a worker — who appeared to think he may be Joe Biden at first, asking, “You Joe?” — and then took pictures with her.
It’s not the first time a fast food trip has become a campaign stop in Georgia this year. Back in April, former President Donald Trump went to a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood while in town for a fundraiser.
Love archival pool footage of Bill Clinton visting McDonalds in 1992. Wearing a Clinton-Gore hat with wings on the front. pic.twitter.com/avV5lYmV2A
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 24, 2021
Bill Clinton mistaken for President Biden by McDonald’s worker in viral clip: ‘Are you Joe?’ https://t.co/k3Q7NanLkr pic.twitter.com/mKutlp4KHQ
— New York Post (@nypost) October 14, 2024
From the New York Post:
Clinton popped into the restaurant while after the Harris campaign trotted him out just three weeks before election day as — polling shows she’s lagging far behind previous Democratic candidates in support from the black community.
Trump is polling at 15% with black voters this year — compared with just 7% in 2016.
Georgia, with its 16 electoral votes, is positioned as a key swing state both parties are aggressively vying to win.
The photo-op represented something of a homecoming for the now-svelte ex-commander-in-chief. Although he’s been a vegan for more than a decade, Bubba’s penchant for cheeseburgers, in particular those from McDonald’s, was well known during his presidency.
A famous photo from the ’90s shows Clinton — drenched with sweat from a jog — stopping into Mickey D’s for a bite flanked by Secret Service.
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