Kamala Harris's "Marxist" father has never met his daughter at the White House - despite living a mere one mile away.
Just last week, Harris had told crowds at the Democratic National Convention that "it was mostly [her] mother" who raised her and her sister Maya.
And though her "big, blended" family - comprising husband Doug Emhoff, his children Emma and Cole, and even his ex-wife Kerstin - had sat in the audience as she formally accepted her party's nomination, Harris made sparingly little mention of her father at the DNC.
Donald J Harris - a bizarre namesake for Kamala's Republican rival for President - only received a shout-out in passing, with his daughter noting how he had encouraged her to be "fearless".
Harris's "big, blended" family had sat in the audience as she formally accepted her party's nomination
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GB News understands that Donald owns a home just one mile from his daughter's office in the West Wing.
But publicly-available White House visitor logs show that the 86-year-old left-wing academic has never visited the seat of power in Washington DC.
Despite the paternal no-show, it remains to be seen whether Donald has ever visited Kamala in an unofficial capacity at the Vice-Presidential residence at the United States Naval Observatory.
But it's not Donald J Harris's attendance record which has raised eyebrows - it's his academic past.
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White House visitor logs show that Harris's father has never officially visited her
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Kamala's father has pledged to "stay out of all the political hullabaloo"
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The 86-year-old Jamaican-born economist had built his reputation in academia at the University College of the West Indies and the University of London before studying towards a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
At Berkeley, he met Kamala's mother Shyamala Gopalan - and the Democratic nominee has written that the pair first met "while participating in the civil rights movement".
It was while teaching at Stanford University, also in California, where he earned the "Marxist" moniker - thanks to the university's student newspaper the Stanford Daily.
In a New York Times profile in 2020, he was described as a "prominent critic of mainstream economic theory from the left" - and in the same article, a former student of Harris's drew alarming parallels between the Marxist professor and his now-Presidential hopeful daughter.
Dr Robert A Blecker, who had been taught by Kamala's father, told the NYT: "When I saw Kamala grill Judge Kavanaugh at his [US Supreme Court confirmation] hearing, I saw echoes of her father grilling someone in a seminar."
Kamala Harris's mother and father met at Berkeley
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Kamala's dad may remain tight-lipped - even if she wins in November
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Despite the similarities, one possible source of enmity between Donald and Kamala Harris could lie in a letter he once sent his daughter labelling her comments a "travesty".
Following an interview in which the incumbent Vice-President had joked that it was natural to smoke cannabis while growing up in a Jamaican household, her father had written to her in fury.
He wrote: "My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents must be turning in their grave right now... Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty."
But even if his daughter is successful in her bid to take the reins from Joe Biden in November, he may yet remain tight-lipped, having previously pledged to "stay out of all the political hullabaloo".
