As Harris ratchets up her media appearances with 40 days left to the election, she’s become keen on reciting lines about her “middle class upbringing.” Some experts suggest that she’s trying to distinguish herself from Donald Trump, who has been rich his entire life, and seem more relatable to voters — especially as the economy has been listed as the number one concern and motivator heading into November in poll after poll.
But a deep dive into her past reveals that her childhood, adolescence and early adulthood were characterized by privilege that most middle class Americans have never experienced and certainly can’t afford in this economy.
She may have much more in common with her opponent than she would like to let on.
She frequently presents herself as someone who grew up in the predominantly black city of Oakland, California, when the reality is that she came of age in affluent suburbs.
Breitbart News reports:
Yet Harris has tried to tie herself to Oakland, claiming in her memoir that as a child, she lived on “the boundary between Oakland and Berkeley.” However, The Oaklandside, a local news site, reported, “by no stretch of the imagination was her Bancroft apartment geographically close to the border; it’s directly west of downtown.”
Before Harris took part in the busing program, she actually attended kindergarten at a private school called the Berkwood School, according to The Berkeleyside. According to the school’s website, tuition was $29,800 for the 2023-2024 school year.
And according to USA Today and The Berkeleyside, Harris and her sister would spend weekends and summers with their father in the nearby city of Palo Alto — one of the richest and most exclusive zip codes in America and known as the “birthplace of Silicon Valley.” It was also not very diverse. In 2010, it had less than a one-percent black population.
They also took frequent vacations to visit her father’s family in Jamaica and her mother’s family in India.
In Montreal, Harris lived in one of the most upscale neighborhoods, with homes worth more than a million dollars, according to exclusive reporting by Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris. There was no racial hostility in Montreal, Morris reported.
The Harris-Walz campaign has been dealing with embellishments and lies from both the presidential and vice presidential candidates since it started.
Walz was widely criticized when it was discovered he (and the campaign) lied about his military rank, and that he presented himself like a combat veteran despite never actually deploying in Iraq or Afghanista. Harris also came under fire for claiming to have worked at a McDonald’s.
Many commentators believe that the Harris-Walz campaign is desperate to seem likable and relatable to average Americans, because their policies — from taxpayer funded transitions for minors without parental consent, to Soviet-era price controls, are wildly unpopular. When Walz was initially announced as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, pictures of him hunting and coaching football went viral. The campaign also famously released a camouflage hat.
