Former Vice President Kamala Harris said former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (both pictured at the State Department in Washington, D.C., in May 2022) would have been her choice as running mate if he were not gay. She made the comments in her book "107 Days," which is scheduled for release on Tuesday. File Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Former Vice President Kamala Harris said she wanted to name former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate, but it would have been too risky.
Harris was the first Black female to run for the nation's highest office and in her to-be-released book "107 Days" said she thought Buttigieg, who is a gay man, would have been "too much of a risk," according to The Atlantic.
He "would have been an ideal partner -- if I were a straight white man," Harris wrote.
"But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman ... married to a Jewish man," she continued.
