Washington (AP) – Former Vice President Kamala Harris She says she would have chosen Pete Battigeg as her running companion last year, but according to an excerpt from her new book, America wasn’t ready for pairing.
Harris writes in an excerpt from “107 days” Former President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary announced Wednesday in the Atlantic, added that “first choice” was her “first choice,” “if I was a straight white person, I would have been an ideal partner.”
“But we were already asking a lot of America: accepting women, black women, black women who have married Jews.
Her thoughts on choosing a running mate are as candidates in 2028 began to travel the US early in the Second Trump administration.
In an excerpt from the book, she writes about her love of working with Battigieg and her friendship with him and his husband, but the two on Democrat tickets would have been too dangerous.
“And I think Pete knew that too — to our mutual grief,” she writes.
It was not immediately clear when she decided to oppose the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and former intelligence officers of the Naval Reserve. Buttigieg appeared as a national politician in the 2020 presidential election as he finished at the top of the Iowa Caucus.
The Associated Press did not immediately hear a reply from a Buttigieg spokesman.
After Biden dropout After the July 2024 presidential election A tragic debate performanceHarris was left to raise Democrat tickets.
She chose Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz As her running companion After his offensive line To former President Donald Trump and his running peers, then-senator Ohio JD Vance – “These people are just weird” – is widespread. They are ultimately Lost.
Harris’ book, whose title refers to her condensed presidential election length, is scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster on Tuesday.
