Kamala Harris grilled over not picking Pete Buttigieg as VP choice

A former presidential hopeful Kamala Harris defended her decision not to choose Pete Buttigigue as her running companion in last year’s presidential election.

The former Democrat Vice President promotes her book, 107 daysdelves into the short time she had to start a campaign after Joe Biden dropped out after running just four months before America went to the poll.

A recent excerpt has been previewed Atlantic Ocean It provided insight into her choices for a potential vice president. Buttigieg, who played against Biden and Harris for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 White House election, was her “first choice.”

But that was “too risky” and she decided instead for Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz and plump.

“We were already asking a lot of America: accepting women, black women, black women who have married Jews,” she said.

Recent appearances in Rachel Madou ShowHarris was burned by a gay host about the language in the book, where the then Transport Secretary said he couldn’t become her running companion “because he was gay.”

Harris replied: “My point is, as I write in the book, one of the most heated and contested elections… a black woman running for the President of the United States against someone like Donald Trump who doesn’t know the floor, [have] Vice President’s running companion [who is] The gay men had very high stakes, which made me very sad, but I realized that it would be a real risk. ”

She argued that the decision not to go with Buttigieg, who described as a “wonderful civil servant,” was not about bias, but admitted that “maybe I was too cautious.”

America was ready for gay leaders, she added, praised someone sometimes called Mayor Pete for their ability to beat conservative voters.

I’ll talk Politics Last week, Buttigieg responded to the former vice president’s comments, saying:

“You need to go to voters with what you think you can do for them. Politics is about the outcomes you get for people, not these other things.”

A July poll included Buttigieg, who is raising two mixed race children with her husband who likes to become Democratic candidates ahead of the 2028 presidential election.

107 days It is currently available.

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