Tshibaka's grandfather had a doctorate and taught graduate school, but she continues to claim no one in her family tried college before she did

The humble origin brag is a mainstay of Kelly Tshibaka’s campaign. “We are literally a family that went from homeless to Harvard,” Tshibaka said in 2020 in an interview with right-wing politician Jim Minnery, a slogan she also tried out with other right-wing groups. Along with the fake claim of being homeless, she almost always repeats the fake claim that no one else in her family attended college before she did.

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