Harris: Buttigieg as running mate was ‘too big of a risk’

In her new book, former Vice President Kamala Harris said her first choice for a running mate was Pete Buttigieg, but felt it was “too big of a risk.”

In the soon-to-be-released book “107 Days,” Harris recounts her attempt to reach the Oval Office in what ultimately became the shortest campaign in modern history. In it, the former vice president reflects on the choices she made on the trail and how those decisions, in part, shaped her outcome.

According to the Atlantic, Harris considered her friend Pete Buttigieg — a former naval intelligence officer, mayor, and transportation secretary — as a possible running mate.

Early excerpts reveal that Buttigieg was her “first choice,” but she ultimately decided that, as a Black woman, running with a gay man would be asking too much of the Americ