Kamala Harris Is From Berkeley—but She Doesn’t Talk About It Much
When the Democratic National Convention introduced Vice President Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee on Thursday, one key bit of her background was slightly unclear—her hometown.
A video at the DNC displayed her hometown as the “East Bay”—the local term for all of the large cities across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Harris has previously emphasized her connection to Oakland, where she launched her first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019. At her kickoff rally, the then-California senator said she was “proud to be a daughter of Oakland, California.”