Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Pete Buttigieg was her “first choice” for a running mate in 2024, but the prospect of a Black woman running alongside a gay man was “too big of a risk,” according to an excerpt from her new book.

In an excerpt of her soon-to-be-released book 107 Days , published Wednesday in The Atlantic , Harris wrote that the former U.S. Transportation Secretary, who resides in Traverse City with his family, “would have been an ideal partner — if I were 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 —

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