Kamala Harris wanted to pick Pete Buttigieg as her 2024 vice presidential candidate but decided against it because she believed it was too risky to choose a gay candidate, according to a new excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.

The losing Democratic standard bearer felt Buttiegieg would be the best running mate but believed American voters were not ready to vote for a White House ticket of a Black woman and a gay man.

“(Buttigieg) would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes. “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, who was catapulted into the race when former President Joe Biden abruptly pulled the plug on his reelection bid, admitted considering throwing caution

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