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.”
