Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg reacted with shock to learn that former Vice President Kamala Harris considered then abandoned him as a potential running mate during the 2024 election.
In an excerpt of Harris’s forthcoming memoir published this week in The Atlantic, she described how Buttigieg was initially her top choice, though she later grew concerned America was not ready to elect a ticket with a Black woman and a gay man, concluding that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.”
