The Atlantic posted another excerpt from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s book 107 Days, and oh, boy. It’s a doozy.
Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate.
So why didn’t she? Apparently, Harris thinks so little of Americans:
As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man.Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “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.”“And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.”—Harris writes that Buttigieg originally topped the eight names on her vetting list because “he 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.”“I love Pete,” she wrote. “I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends.”
So Harris discriminated against Buttigieg because he’s gay.
I thought the Democrats fought against that behavior!
I doubt Buttigieg would have helped Harris. He doesn’t have enough merit to justify the pick, whether he’s gay or not.
But still. Thinking Buttigieg would hurt your chances because he’s gay, and therefore not choosing him is discriminatory. Yikes.
It is not unusual for a presidential candidate to select a vice president who can help them win. I believe JFK chose Lyndon Johnson so he could win Texas.
No matter who Harris picked, she would lose. Harris was an awful candidate who had terrible ideas and couldn’t speak coherently.
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