(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump has a busy Sunday schedule ahead of him, 16 days until Election Day — he’s scheduled for a work shift at McDonald’s.
Trump will be hosting a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, attending the Jets-Steelers NFL game in Pittsburgh, and is set to work behind the counter at a McDonald’s in Lower Southampton Township, his campaign says.
But for Rep. Scott Perry, R-PA, this will “highlight he’s for the working class,” he said on NewsNation’s “Morning in America with Hena Doba” on Sunday.
Pennsylvania is one of seven battleground states both presidential candidate needs to reach 270 Electoral College votes. The Keystone State gets 19 of those votes, making last-minute campaigning all the more urgent to get undecided voters, well, decided.
“President Trump is showing that he is very different from the party of the coastal elites and that he understands the average citizen that gets up every day, oftentimes in the dark, packs a lunch, and heads out to work just to pay their bills,” Scott said.
The former president has questioned the summer job Harris said she held in college, working the cash register and making fries at McDonald’s while attending Howard University in Washington. Trump has claimed the vice president never worked there, repeating the claim Friday night at a campaign rally in Detroit, saying Harris “lied about working at McDonald’s.”
A Trump-endorsed candidate also running for reelection, Scott is not worried about Trump’s rhetoric and language alienating groups of independent voters, including votes of Black males.
“I think he speaks plain, you know, I think most people understand the point that he’s trying to make and have probably made the same point themselves behind closed doors,” Scott said. “He’s reminding them about how bad it’s been for the past essentially four years, which is also a reminder of how great it was four years prior to the Harris-Biden regime.”
Though admitting he wouldn’t use the language Trump uses.
“But then again, I’m not President Trump, and I don’t draw tens of thousands of people to my rallies week after week, day after day, so I’m going to let President Trump be President Trump.”
Election Day is Nov. 5, but early in-person voting is already underway.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.