Where is Kamala Harris from really?

Published September 6, 2024 5:37am ET



Vice President Kamala Harris claims to be a “daughter of Oakland.” But while she was born in an Oakland, California, hospital in 1964, her parents lived in Berkeley at the time, where they stayed for just two years before moving first to Urbana, Illinois, then Evanston, Illinois, then Madison, Wisconsin.

Harris did not return to the Bay Area until 1970, when her mother chose to live, again, in Berkeley. Her parents had divorced by this point, and Harris and her sister would often spend weekends with her father in Palo Alto. 

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