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Posted on 09/18/2025 1:41:51 PM PDT by Signalman
The ghost of the 2024 election continues to haunt Kamala Harris as she revisits her ill-fated decision to put Tim Walz on the ticket.
Harris writes in her new memoir that the Minnesota governor was not her “first choice” for vice president, despite the enthusiasm she showed Walz in the days after he was suddenly announced. Many observers speculated that the Democrats’ No. 2 slot became a contest between Walz and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who Harris aides feared would provoke a backlash among pro-Palestinian progressive activists because he is Jewish.
But in “107 Days,” the former vice president writes that her first choice was instead Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay member of a president’s cabinet and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who converted his hometown appeal into an improbable presidential campaign.
Buttigieg was presented with the audacious idea, but he and Harris ultimately agreed that putting a gay man on the ticket of the first black woman to run in the general election would be “too big a risk” for their chances to defeat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.
Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes.
“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 continues. “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.”
The selection of Walz checked a box that Buttigieg brought to the table — an affable midwesterner who ostensibly connected with middle America. But that theory fell flat as the Harris-Walz ticket went on to lose the popular vote and every single swing state.
In her book, Harris praises the Biden cabinet member as “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 writes. “I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends.”
Early polls for the 2028 contest put Buttigieg near the top of the pack, even ahead of Harris. An Emerson College survey found Buttigieg leading Harris 16% to 13% in a hypothetical Democratic primary, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (12%), Shapiro (7%), and “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) (7%) rounding out the top five, the NY Post reported.
Buttigieg made clear earlier this year that he is giving serious consideration to another run for the White House.
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Zero qualifications
I’m trying to imagine the distorted world of the Democrats, where Tim Walz would be considered the “safe” pick.
Like Kamala.
Charlie Kirk used to ask people to name Kamala’s greatest accomplishment. The response was always little more than spluttering gibberish.
One could ask the same about Pete Buttgeek ... the result would be the same.
Commie
Gay
He’s got all the qualifications a leftist needs
Buttigieg is pure ambition with no substance. But he was smart enough to realize if the partnered with Kamala that any future political aspirations were dead. My guess is Josh Shapiro would also have passed on the chance.
There’s nothing worse than working under someone who is utterly incompetent. Fortunately, nothing the media did could hide how horrible she was. She was chosen by Biden as impeachment insurance just as he was Obama’s impeachment insurance.
“I’m trying to imagine the distorted world of the Democrats, where Tim Walz would be considered the “safe” pick.”
...repeated concussions
Josh Shapiro has been on TV news milking the tragedy of the police officers who were shot and three who were killed yesterday in the rural area of Pennsylvania.
He loves the chance to get face time.
He blamed guns.
He blamed the uproar of disagreements between the trans lover assassin and the MAGA people for causing violence. Both sides.
A real loser. Slimy and slithery like Gavin Newscum.
As a guest on TV news said yesterday, if the people of Minnesota vote Tim Walz into officer again then they do not deserve any sympathy from good people.
is Willie Brown’s sperm bank still claiming to be part African?
Lol, Kamala still thinking independent voters will only vote rat if there were a straight white man on the ticket. I assume Walz is straight. The rats wouldnt have won even with Fetterman and Manchin on the ticket.
These misfits still trying to pretend this sick twisted lifestyle is A-OK. Perfectly normal! Not!
BOHICA, Tampon Tim. Harpooned and lampooned.
He’s gay that’s all the left needs… check the right box, nothing else matters.
Guys career has been nothing but failure in public office.
Left his mayorship so unpopular he couldn’t win re election. As transportation secretary he never resolved a single issue. Trump was still dealing with the supply chain issue this guy had years to fix but couldn’t.
However to the left he’s gay, that’s all that matters
“””As a guest on TV news said yesterday, if the people of Minnesota vote Tim Walz into officer again then they do not deserve any sympathy from good people.”””””
Having that moron on the national stage really exposed what an idiot he is. Here in Minneapolistan the media covers for him. Now everybody knows how incompetent he is.
In 2020, the Democrats knew that having Harris on the ticket wouldn't cause them to lose. Everything had already been arranged.
Tampon Tim...or
Knee pads kackling kamala?
She’s too stupid and DRUNK to realize that either way she was going to lose. Even if she had picked Buttplug she would NOT have won, please, after what allowed to have happen in East Palestine Ohio he had NO chance for anything..and as far as Harris is concerned, she lost the second she couldnt put a sentence together explaining ANYTHING, her best choice would have been Josh Shapiro but she couldnt since the majority of the Dem party supports Hamas
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