Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg weighed in on former Vice President Harris’s assertion in her new book that picking him as her running mate would be “too risky,” saying he was "surprised." “Well, I was surprised when I read that — I just believe in giving Americans more credit," Buttigieg said Thursday in an interview with Politico. "My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you're going to do for their lives, not on categories."
“And I wouldn't have run for president if I didn't believe that. You know, I was right here in Indiana when this state turned blue for the first time since LBJ,” he continued. “And it wasn't, wasn't Bill Clinton who did it. It wasn't John Kerry who did it. That happened in 200