Kamala Harris is out with a new book, and it is already stirring up drama inside her own party. In an excerpt obtained by The Atlantic, Harris reveals that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was not her first choice for vice president. He was the “safe” backup pick. Her real preference was Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — but she ultimately decided America was too “bigoted” to accept a ticket led by a Black woman married to a Jewish man with a gay man as her running mate.
“(Buttigieg) would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in her book 107 Days. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man.”
She went on to say that “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.” According to Harris, both she and Buttigieg were saddened by the decision, but she chose Walz as a more calculated option that would not scare voters.
The irony is hard to miss. Harris claims she avoided Buttigieg because of America’s supposed “bigotry,” but the fact is no running mate was going to rescue her sinking campaign. Voters weren’t rejecting her because of demographics — they were rejecting her because they saw her as an incompetent politician with no accomplishments to her name. She was the face of Biden’s border disaster, a failed “voting rights” crusade, and countless empty photo ops. Picking Walz over Buttigieg did nothing to change that.
Harris even admits in the book that she saw no reason to run on any meaningful differences from Joe Biden. Asked what she would have done differently than Biden during his term, she responded, “There’s not a thing that comes to mind.” That single line tells you everything you need to know. Her candidacy was never about vision or leadership, only about identity and entitlement.
The end result was predictable: Harris went down in flames to President Trump, and no amount of excuse-making about America’s “bigotry” changes that fact. Walz, Buttigieg, or anyone else — the ticket was doomed because Harris herself was doomed.
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