Harris reveals that Buttigieg was the first VP Choice but “too big risk”

Former vice-president Kamala Harris revealed that Pete Buttigieg was his “first choice” as a running mate during the presidential election of last year, but such a twinning “was too big risk”, according to an extract from his next book.

Buttigieg, the former transport secretary and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is gay, “would have been an ideal partner – if I was a right white man,” Harris wrote in a part of “107 days” published by the Atlantic.

“But we already asked for a lot of America: to accept a woman, a black woman, a black woman married to a Jewish man. Some of me meant, kiss, let’s do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big risk,” she added. “And I think Pete also knew it – our mutual sadness.”

Harris finally selected the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as a running mate. This couple lost the presidential election against Donald Trump and JD Vance in November.

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The president of the time, Kamala Harris, speaks during a meeting with Pete Buttigieg, then Secretary of Transport, on the left, during the American Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) in the Washington State Department on Friday, May 13, 2022. (Yuri gripas / sipa / bloomberg via getty images)

In the extract of “107 days”, Harris said that Buttigieg had initially led the eight names on his verification list for friends of friends management because “he is a sincere official with the rare talent to be able to supervise the liberal arguments in a way that allows the Conservators to hear them”, according to The Atlantic.

“I love Pete,” she would have written. “I love working with Pete. He and her husband, Chasten, are friends.”

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Vice-president Kamala Harris, on the left, and Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota and Democratic candidate Vice-Presidential, are represented at a campaign event at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States, Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Bing Guan / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Harris and Buttigieg both presented themselves to the presidency in 2020, but the appointment of the Democratic Party was obtained by Joe Biden in this electoral cycle.

Harris’ book “107 Days” is expected to be released on Tuesday, September 23.

“For the first time, and with surprising and revealing ideas, the former vice-president Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consecutive presidential campaigns in American history,” reads a description of the book on Simon & Schuster website.

President Joe Bid is delighted with American elected president Donald Trump and Melania Trump in the White House before his inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee / Getty images)

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“From chaos of campaign strategy sessions to the intensity of the preparation of the debate in the context of a tireless examination and private moments that rarely make the headlines, Kamala Harris offers an unspecred look at pressures, triumphs and sorrows of a race defining history,” added.