Kamala Harris’ Estranged Dad Owns a Home Just a Mile From the White House—So, Why Has He Never Gone To Visit?

When Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, she raised eyebrows when she made an incredibly rare reference to her estranged father, Donald J. Harris, praising him for inspiring her to “be fearless.”

She recalled how her father had once told her, “Run, Kamala, run. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let anything stop you,” when she was playing in the park as a child.

“From my earliest years, he taught me to be fearless,” she noted. Kamala paid tribute to her father in her history-making speech in front of the world at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

However, privately, her relationship with Donald, 86, is understood to have broken down almost entirely.

So much so, that the pair are reported to have spent very little time together—even though Kamala’s dad lives just one mile away from the White House that his daughter is now fighting to claim.

There is no record of the vice president‘s father ever having visited Kamala, 59, at the White House.

(Vice President Kamala Harris has been estranged from her father for years—but it turns out, he has a home just a stone’s throw from the White House. Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Donald was not present at the DNC when Kamala gave her acceptance speech, despite being her only living parent. Her mother, who she also spoke very warmly about at the convention, died in 2009.

It is not known whether Donald has visited his daughter privately. However, both he and Kamala have been open about their estranged relationship.

“When I was in elementary school, [my parents] split up, and it was mostly my mother who raised us,” Kamala said in her DNC speech. In 2019, Donald told Politico that he did not wish to engage in the “political hullabaloo” surrounding his daughter and would therefore not be giving any interviews to the press, a promise that he has kept.

Close, but yet so far

The presidential candidate currently lives with her husband, Doug Emhoff, in the Naval Observatory, the official residence of the vice president.

As for her father, a Jamaican-American economist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, he lives in a condo in Washington, DC.

Located downtown, Donald’s three-bedroom home spans 2,200 square feet.

He purchased his longtime home in 2000 for $700,000, and it sits about 2 miles from the Naval Observatory.

Ref: Kamala Harris’ Estranged Dad Owns a Home Just a Mile From the White House—So, Why Has He Never Gone To Visit? (realtor)

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