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.
What does political violence have to do with this perp who had a domestic incident with his girlfriend, that is why they came to his house in the first place
They put in a gay man anyway
Correct, but you can’t ask a woke homosexual about his accomplishments because u will then be called homophobic.
Hairass/Bootyjudge would have been the ultimate DEI ticket. Zero accomplishments, utterly soulless, but they tick all the right boxes for the Left.
Absolutely pathetic.
When was Waltz humiliated?
< shrug >
And you can’t ask a dark skinned unintelligent whore about her accomplishments because that’s racist and misogynistic ..
Unless you just don’t care about that crap any more.
That’s where I have gotten to ...
None of those stupid labels matter to me any more.
Good point.
Makes as little sense as the Rolling Stones Sympathy For the Devil
“I shouted out
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me.
////////////////////////////////
It had nothing to do with me. I saw JFK in person at a shopping center rally and liked him when I was a kid. I was greatly dismayed over whomever killed him.
No qualifications? The ideal Dem pick.
First big decision and she blew it. (So to speak)
“Tampon Joel” - said no one ever
Mayor Pete isn’t a commie. He isn’t anything except ambitious.
Acting like one of those queers had just given birth?
I pray for those children - that they can somehow be removed from those reprobates and have an opportunity at life.
Ahhh, yes! We have late-breaking news:
The Irrelevant seeks to put the blame for her failure upon the Unknown.
Good job!! 👍👍👍
You ain’t black, man!
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