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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel disagreed with former Vice President Kamala Harris ’ reasoning for not selecting former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate on CNN Tuesday.
In Harris’ new book "107 Days," the ex-vice president revealed that Buttigieg was her first choice for running mate ahead of the 2024 presidential election. However, she wrote that the potential pairing was too risky, saying he "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," sh