Posted on 09/27/2024 9:11:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sources: Breitbart News, USA Today
In the weeks since Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, she’s frequently claimed that she had a “middle-class” childhood when she was growing up. Like most things that come out of her mouth, however, this has seemingly turned out to be a blatant lie.
Harris has often alleged that she is from Oakland, a blue-collar California city with a large black population. Last month, she proudly described herself as “a daughter of Oakland, California.” She added that she “was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.”
Though Harris was technically born at a hospital in Oakland, her graduate school student parents lived in Berkeley, California. There, they attended UC Berkeley, one of the top universities in the world. This area is known for being predominantly white and is a favorite spot of the liberal elite.
Throughout her childhood, Harris and her younger sister Maya attended ritzy private schools. They also had other opportunities that true “middle-class” children could only dream of having.
From Breitbart News:
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.
Harris and her sister would also take “frequent visits” to Jamaica, where their father came from a privileged family of former slaveowners. They would also take trips to Chennai, India, to visit her mother’s family.
When Harris was around 12 years old, her family moved to Montreal, Canada. This move happened because her mother got a job teaching at Jewish General Hospital at McGill University, one of Canada’s top universities.
Kamala’s life of privilege only got better in Montreal.
More from Breitbart News:
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.
Harris spent the next approximately six years in Canada, first attending a French-language primary school called Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, which according to the school’s website, is in a “beautiful neighborhood.”
The year after they moved to Montreal, Harris’ mother bought her first home in Oakland. This is a story that Harris often recounts on the campaign trail. The details that she typically leaves out, however, are very telling.
More from Breitbart News
Harris has said her mother saved for “many years” for a down payment on the home, which she described as “a one-level dark-gray house on a cul-de-sac, with a shingled roof.”
However, what Harris has not said was that the home was located in the hills of Oakland by a golf course — one of the wealthiest and most beautiful areas of Oakland. That three-bedroom, two-bathroom home is now worth an estimated $914,881, according to a posting on Redfin.
As for Harris’ claims that she worked at McDonald’s restaurant to earn extra money as a teenager, she has never offered any evidence to back this up. Her campaign has alleged that she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California.
This would be odd, however, as investigators have found that there are other McDonald’s restaurants that are located closer to the home that Harris’ mother owned in Oakland. Why would she skip over those establishment to work at a McDonald’s further away in Alameda?
Given how well her family appears to have been doing financially, it also seems unlikely that a teenage Harris would have needed to work at McDonald’s to make extra money. One would additionally think that after touting this alleged McDonald’s story so many times, at least one small piece of evidence that Harris ever worked there would have turned up by now. Instead, Harris still expects voters to just take her word for it that she was once a McDonald’s worker.
Harris is desperately trying to portray herself as someone who has a rags to riches story. In reality, she’s clearly a woman who has enjoyed a life of privilege from the very beginning. This all serves as a reminder that when it comes to Kamala Harris, absolutely nothing that she says can be trusted.
Trump should debate her and just list her lies about her personal life and political positions instead of answering any question asked.
And sadly, that’s irrelevant to the TDS-ers who will vote for her to keep Trump out of office.
Don’t care if she grew up on the shores of Jamaica or in some Indian palace, or in a Berkeley dorm room. Only one candidate is capable of running a country competently, keeping the economy afloat, and the entire world out of World War 3.
.....This all serves as a reminder that when it comes to Kamala Harris, absolutely nothing that she says can be trusted......
Or maybe she is suffering from dementia, and her memory is faulty (cackle-cackle)!
Trump’s debating skills are not as good as Cruz or Rubio.
I admire Trump for his policies, not his debating skills.
Trump is an unusual politician who actually tries hard to do what he says.
To supplement her allowance she used to mow lawns.
All true and to make it worse, I partly blame voters who think that middle class origins is a positive qualifer for honesty and competence. It ain’t!
It looks like the only true thing she said about her neighborhood was that the people were proud of their lawns...
She’s a Commie, Jim.
Kamala said she worked at McDonald’s and there she “did fries.”
What a freaking joke, when you work at fast food places, you don’t have just one single thing you do.
she was an exception: after screwing up on the cash register, they put her on fries where she screws that up also. She was naturally fired at the end of her first day. Fire her again.
In the debate, i was so hoping that Trump would have hit her on the “Middle-Class Upbringing”. The info was out there already that she wasn’t middle class.
He could have and should have popped her balloon right then and there.
She grew up in a wealthy Canadian neighborhood where her family was the token middle class family?
I’m not talking about that. I’m saying just list her lies in response to every question and site sources, call her out to her face, address her directly, question her directly, break any rules necessary.
Nothing Harris says can be trusted.
It’s why her party welcomed her with open arms one more comrade.
I read Breitbart article on 9/24 and meant to post it. Now I don’t have to find article in my save list.
Kamala also lived in Evanston IL growing up, high end and upper middle class. (Jan Shakowski, Dem Congressthing, lives in Evanston.)
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