This article seeks to verify or disprove Kamala Harris’ claim that she worked at McDonalds when she was younger. The article is from Hollywood Life which is a gossip column, and not the most trustworthy source. It’s written by Elisabeth McGowan, who has mostly written only for gossip columns similar to Hollywood Life in the past, so this doesn’t add much legitimacy to the article. The source this article referenced for its information was newsweek.com, which got its information from nytimes.com, which is a reliable and legitimate source. These three articles all use the same evidence, which makes sense as they feed off of each other, but none of them are really making a claim for either side of the argument so much as just presenting inconclusive evidence for both sides. To back up Trump’s claim that Harris is lying, they present the fact that there is no hard evidence to prove that she worked at McDonald's. To argue on behalf of Harris, they present the fact that McDonald’s did not keep a record of all of their workers from the time that Harris claimed to work there, so the lack of record is not very significant. The only source they used to back up Harris’ claim was confirmation from her friend Wanda Kagan, which is definitely not the most reliable information seeing as Kagan is bound to be biased as Harris’ close friend. In conclusion, there really is no conclusion presented in either this article or the sources it references. There is no hard evidence that Harris worked at McDonald’s and also no hard evidence that she didn’t, so it seems that the most efficient thing to do is simply move on from the topic.
