Jesse Watters Complains Kamala Harris 'Didn't Grow Up In Oakland,' Cites Birth Certificate

Taking a page from Donald Trump’s birtherist playbook, Fox News’ Jesse Watters used Kamala Harris’ birth certificate to claim she lied about her childhood during Monday’s “Primetime” broadcast.

Unlike the GOP presidential nominee, Watters avoided claiming the vice president wasn’t born in the United States. Instead, he decided to split hairs about which Bay Area locale she has a right to identify with.

“Did you know that Kamala Harris didn’t grow up in Oakland as she always said she did?” Watters said on his show, referring to the California city. “Kamala Harris grew up in Berkeley, the ‘People’s Republic of Berkeley,’ ‘Berserkely,’ the most insanely liberal precinct in America.”

“Her birth certificate lists an apartment right next to Berkeley’s campus,” he continued — omitting the fact that Harris was born in an Oakland hospital. “It’s half a block south of People’s Park, which is basically ground zero for every single radical protest movement. Kamala attended Berkeley public schools and was even bussed to [them.]”

Watters began the segment by referring to a New York Times article published Sunday, in which a former Berkeley neighbor suggested Harris might’ve distanced herself from the city in favor of nearby Oakland because “we have such a reputation for being on the far left.”

Watters even pointed to her anecdote during the first 2019 presidential debate in which then-Sen. Harris chronicled being bussed to school and claimed “people can’t trust you” if “you lie about where you grew up” — only for a horde of social media users to speak out against him.

“She grew up 20 minutes from me. Oakland and Berkeley are right next to each other… he’s such a stupid ahole,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another