By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland
ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – With the U.S. presidential election little greater than two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two church buildings on Sunday whereas her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited one other type of American temple: a McDonald’s (NYSE:).
Each candidates had been scrambling for votes in essentially the most aggressive states, with Harris interesting to early voters in Georgia and Trump campaigning in Pennsylvania forward of the Nov. 5 election.
At a McDonald’s in suburban Philadelphia, Trump eliminated his swimsuit jacket, placed on a black and yellow apron and proceeded to prepare dinner batches of french fries, one thing he stated he had needed to do “all my life.”
He dipped wire baskets of potatoes in scorching oil earlier than salting them and handing them out to prospects by means of the restaurant’s drive-through window. Hundreds of individuals lined the road reverse the restaurant to observe.
“I like this job,” stated Trump, whose adoration for quick meals has been well-chronicled. “I’m having a lot of fun here.”
Trump has stated the McDonald’s go to was meant partly as a jab at Harris, who says she labored on the quick meals chain throughout her faculty years. Trump claims that Harris by no means labored there however has not offered proof to again that up.
Campaigning in Georgia, Harris, who marked her sixtieth birthday on Sunday, participated in two worship providers outdoors of Atlanta on Sunday.
At Divine Religion Ministries Worldwide in Jonesboro, Georgia, music icon Stevie Surprise carried out, singing his hit “Higher Ground” and a model of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.”
Harris urged folks to vote. “We are all in this together. We have so much more in common than divides us,” she stated.
Harris, who was raised within the teachings of the Black church and sang in a church choir, earlier spoke at New Delivery Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia.
There, she drew a pointy distinction to the cruel and divisive rhetoric of the present political local weather, though she didn’t point out Trump by title.
“At this point across our nation, what we do see are some trying to deepen division among us, spread hate, sow fear and cause chaos,” she stated. “At this moment, our country is at a crossroads and where we go is up to us.”
After her occasions, Harris recorded an interview with civil rights chief Al Sharpton that may air afterward Sunday. Trump was scheduled to carry a city corridor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania earlier than attending the Pittsburgh Steelers recreation on Sunday night.
Harris will want robust ends in the bulk non-white cities of Detroit and Atlanta and their surrounding suburbs to repeat President Joe Biden’s 2020 wins in Michigan and Georgia.
The previous president is looking for to make the most of what he felt was an improved place for him in opinion polls that present a deadlocked race. Some voters have already got despatched mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, the most important prize on Election Day amongst battleground states.
On Monday, Harris stated she’s going to marketing campaign with Republican former Consultant Liz Cheney within the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who’s supporting Harris, acknowledged on NBC’S “Meet the Press” that the race in his state is tight.
“We understand that this election likely will come down to tens of thousands of votes … you’ve got to compete for every vote,” Shapiro stated.