Former presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has defended her decision to not pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in last year’s presidential election .

The Democratic former vice-president has been promoting her book, 107 Days , which delves into the short time she had to mount her campaign after Joe Biden dropped out of the running just four months before America went to the polls.

A recent excerpt previewed in The Atlantic offered some insight into her choice for a potential vice-president. Buttigieg, who went up against Biden and Harris for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 race for the White House election, was her “first choice.”

However, it was “too big a risk”, she decided and plumped for Minnesota governor Tim Walz instead.

“We were already asking a lot of America: to acc

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