Kamala Harris Reveals Whom She Actually Wanted As Her 2024 Running Mate

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) wasn’t her high decide as operating mate within the 2024 election. She spilled on her first selection within the upcoming memoir “107 Days,” named after the period of time she had because the Democratic nominee.

Harris revealed in an excerpt printed Tuesday by The Atlantic that she really needed then-Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to be her vice-presidential nominee. Harris reportedly wrote that he “would have been a great accomplice — if I have been a straight white man.”

“However we have been already asking loads of America: to just accept a lady, a Black girl, a Black girl married to a Jewish man,” wrote Harris, per The Atlantic. “A part of me needed to say, Screw it, let’s simply do it. However figuring out what was at stake, it was too massive of a threat.”

She continued, “And I believe Pete additionally knew that — to our mutual disappointment.”

Whether or not these fears have been warranted will without end stay a thriller, as Harris selected Walz and in the end lost the election to Donald Trump. The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire added Tuesday that Harris doesn’t expose in her ebook whether or not Walz knew he was her second selection.

The excerpt confirmed Buttigieg was on the high of an eight-person quick checklist, and whereas it doesn’t title the opposite seven, rumored picks forward of the election included California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.

Harris reportedly described Buttigieg in her memoir as “a honest public servant with the uncommon expertise of with the ability to body liberal arguments in a means that makes it attainable for conservatives to listen to them.” She added, “I really like Pete. I really like working with Pete.”

“He and his husband, Chasten, are pals,” Harris continued.