Former Vice President Kamala Harris made headlines last week when it was revealed that she claims in her new book that she decided not to choose Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because of Americans’ prejudice.

She says that then-Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.” She adds: “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.”

Somehow, she reckoned, the electorate that chose a black man whose middle name is Hussein would not vote for a gay man who had served in the military.

She did not admit that Buttigieg had other weaknesses — such as

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