Former Vice President Kamala Harris revealed that former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was actually her first choice for a running mate in her forthcoming book 107 Days chronicling her presidential campaign in 2024, according to an excerpt obtained by the Atlantic .

Harris believed that Buttigieg, a married gay man, would've been an "ideal partner" if she, herself, was "a straight white man."

“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” Harris wrote. “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.

“And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”

Harris, who eventually announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her

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