Walz asks crowd to picture Trump making a McFlurry as he woos working class in first solo speech

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday hit out at Donald Trump’s anti-union record as he promised that he and Vice President Kamala Harris would take the pro-labor agenda that made his state one of the best places to work and bring it to the rest of the country.

Speaking to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union in Los Angeles, the Democratic vice presidential nominee — the first labor union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan ran as a Republican in the 1980 election — slammed Trump’s record while touting Harris’s background as a former fast food worker.

“You know Vice President Harris grew up in a middle class family, picked up shifts at that McDonald’s as a student. I keep asking this to make a contrast here, can you simply picture Donald Trump working at a McDonald’s, trying to make a McFlurry or something?” he said.

Trump, he added, “couldn’t run that damn McFlurry machine if it cost him anything!”

Walz told the conference attendees that he and Harris both credit labor unions and unionized teachers, nurses, and state and local government workers with building the American middle class, and boasted of how he and the vice president have joined striking workers on picket lines.

Walz also touted his record as governor, recounting how he signed what he described as “one of the biggest packages of pro-worker policies in history” into law in Minnesota.

“We made it easier for workers to form unions, we strengthened workers protections, and yes, we banned those damn captive audience meetings for good,” he said, referring to a practice of management holding mandatory anti-union meetings to prevent or discourage workers from organizing. He added that the ban on anti-union