Kamala Reveals Who Her ‘First Choice’ For Running Mate Was | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Leif Le Mahieu.

    Former Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024, but decided against it because she wasn't "a straight white man," according to an excerpt from her new book.

    In portions of her new memoir published by The Atlantic on Wednesday, Harris wrote that the openly gay Buttigieg was her "first choice" for her vice presidential running mate. However, she said she felt that a ticket with Buttigieg would present a level of diversity America wasn't ready to embrace.

    Harris wrote that Buttigieg "would have been an ideal partner-if I were a straight white man."

    "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," Harris wrote. "And I think Pete also knew that-to our mutual sadness."

    Harris's book, called "107 Days," is set to be released on September 23.

    Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was Biden's transportation secretary. He is reportedly considering a run for president in 2028. Earlier this year, he opted not to run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly to position himself better for a run for the White House.

    Harris wrote that Buttigieg "is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them."

    In the end, Harris chose Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.


    The first portions of her book, released earlier this month, Harris attacked former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her.

    "Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness," she wrote of Biden's decision to run for re-election. "The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision."

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Now that Kamala Harris has been coronated the Democratic Socialist designee for nomination as their candidate for President of these United States, after that political party's contrived primary process "democratically" elected Joseph R. Biden: What are your feelings about this party's progressive posture within their self-styled exercise of "Saving Democracy for America," and how truly critical the outcome of this presidential election will be?

  I am ecstatic that this "Democracy's" First partially Black, First partially Indian, First female Co-Parent, and this nation's primary necessity is to elect Kamala our First woman president.

  I really do not care about all these "Firsts." I will continue to pray, and work for this Representative Republic to elect someone competent, and brilliantly patriotic to be our next president.

  I will never vote for any politician that "first" does not have the core values to understand how dire this Constitutional Republic's situation has become.

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Now that President Trump is picking his cabinet and immediate staff to insulate him from the poor judgement of the Bureaucratic Class, while moving quickly to transition this Constitutional Republic unto a wise and sustainable direction: What is your immediate impression as to how our nation will prosper?

  We are headed toward a Golden Age in America's self-governed society.

  This will all wind up in a clustered mess since Trump is a Fascist, and thought to be the second coming of Adolf Hitler by our best journalists.

  This is a time where critical days lay ahead, where only wise and responsible decisions must be made to sustain US.

  I generally do not pay attention, but expect only the best to occur ... and that is what I always expect.

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