Former Vice President Kamala Harris shared in her new book that she wanted Pete Buttigieg as her running mate during her 2024 presidential race. But she decided against picking the former Transportation Secretary because she worried about how voters would react to a ticket with both a Black woman and a gay man.
Harris talks about this in her book 107 Days, which tells the story of her short presidential campaign after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July 2024. Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner if I were a straight white man.” She explained why she made this tough choice in her book.
