{"id":77651,"date":"2026-08-20T06:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/from-mcdonalds-to-congress-can-a-former-fry-cook-flip-a-key-district-for-democrats\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:55:54","slug":"from-mcdonalds-to-congress-can-a-former-fry-cook-flip-a-key-district-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/from-mcdonalds-to-congress-can-a-former-fry-cook-flip-a-key-district-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"From McDonald\u2019s to Congress: can a former fry cook flip a key district for Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Rutinel hopes price-tag politics can win key voters in Colorado House race<\/p>\n<p>During his presidential campaign in October 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCFE24BtqGo\">staged<\/a> a photo op at a McDonald\u2019s franchise in Pennsylvania, where he was briefly taught how to work the fryer and drive-thru window at the closed restaurant, while making several unsubstantiated claims about Kamala Harris\u2019s past summer job at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The posturing around McDonald\u2019s garnered significant publicity, as Trump and Republicans capitalized on an affordability crisis triggered by high inflation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/the-us-recovery-from-covid-19-in-international-comparison\/\">occurred globally<\/a> due to the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/20\/mcdonalds-congress-affordability-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Rutinel hopes price-tag politics can win key voters in Colorado House race During his presidential campaign in October 2024, Donald Trump staged a photo op at a McDonald\u2019s franchise in Pennsylvania, where he was briefly taught how to work the fryer and drive-thru window at the closed restaurant, while making several unsubstantiated claims about &#8230; <a title=\"From McDonald\u2019s to Congress: can a former fry cook flip a key district for Democrats?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/from-mcdonalds-to-congress-can-a-former-fry-cook-flip-a-key-district-for-democrats\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about From McDonald\u2019s to Congress: can a former fry cook flip a key district for Democrats?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}