Former Vice President Kamala Harris preferred Pete Buttigieg for her running mate as she ran for president last year, but she believed American voters weren't ready for a ticket featuring a Black woman and a gay man, according to her new book.

In an excerpt of "107 Days," published Wednesday in The Atlantic, Harris writes that Buttigieg was her "first choice" and “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. 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," she writes.

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

Buttigieg rose to prominence with his 2020 presidential bid

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