Kamala Harris Slams McDonald's for Not Committing to Higher Pay

  • Saturday candidate forum in Nevada highlighting union issues
  • State is biggest test of union support in early 2020 voting

Kamala Harris during the National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on April 27. 

Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg
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Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat seeking the presidential nomination, criticized an iconic American company as she sought to build her appeal with union workers at a candidate forum in Las Vegas sponsored by organized labor.

“You can’t go around talking about the Golden Arches, as a symbol of the best of America, when you are not conducting yourself in the best way in terms of supporting the working people of America,” Harris told an audience of several hundred workers.