Weekends in Palo Alto, Private School, Trips to Jamaica: A Look at Kamala Harris’s ‘Middle Class’ Childhood

Vice President Kamala Harris has tried to portray her upbringing as “middle class” and even working class — touting a summer job at McDonald’s and claiming to be from Oakland, a blue-collar city with a large black population.

For example, during a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harris said, “I grew up a child of a mother who worked very hard. She raised me and my sister and she saved up. And by the time I was a teenager, she was able to buy a home.” . . .

However, a close look at her childhood shows that Harris and her younger sister grew up with many opportunities that many “middle class” children do not have, such as living abroad, private school education, and growing up in some of the wealthiest locales in the world.

According to a New York Times report, Harris began “downplaying her Berkeley roots years ago when she first prepared to run for statewide office in California.” It said:

Today, she often describes herself with the somewhat vague label ‘daughter of Oakland,’ a phrase that ties her to a working-class city with less stigma — and counters Donald J. Trump’s preferred branding, ‘San Francisco liberal.’

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