Former Vice President Kamala Harris has revealed who she actually wanted as her 2024 running mate—and it wasn’t the man she ended up with.

An abstract from Harris’ upcoming memoir 107 Days, detailing last year’s presidential campaign and seen by The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire, tells how her “first choice” was then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. However, Harris feared voters were not ready to back a ticket featuring both a Black woman and a gay man.

“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk,” Harris wrote. “And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.”

Harris added that Buttigieg would ha

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