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.
and to the Leftist- the only reason Buttigieg was so ineffective is because of “hate” That’s really how the Leftist mind works. It has to be “homophobia” and the “white male” systemic “racism”
You mean the no-show/no-work job he had for 4 years doesn’t make bootyjuice qualified ?? /s
At least the kackler did humans, not equines.
I just found it on ‘net. ha ha
They’ll be 6 when it’s time to trot them out for Campaign 2028
LOL!
“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.”
Proves how cowardly they are. They create monsters and then the monster owns them.
I guess Mary Shelley wasn’t on their reading list.
Also did a sh!t job as mayor of a small suburban town, and a sh!t job as secy of transportation. They fail upwards, sort of like Brandon on that staircase.
Let Tim Walz pick up the banner and dance and prance along on his merry way to 2028. He has a dancer’s steps and Joe Sixpack abs. Quite a combo.
Shapiro thinks Heels Up is a loser and says, “What an honor. I think the Americans are too bigoted to be able to accept you AND me.”
Walz says, “I need the money.”
Hey a little recognition please! I beat him by a dozen posts and 10 minutes. I didn’t even get a GMTA! :)
Pothole Pete or tampon Timmy. Those democrats really know how connect with middle America.
Trump is a threat to our dumbocracy! Lol.
I think you are right, Shapiro would have been smart to keep his distance even if offered the job. I think the truth is, Pothole Pete figured it the same way.
sorry about that chief. no see. :-)
This stuff is all over the place and we are just starting to see AI generated stuff.
WHO gives a quarter of a crap?
Is she still black or has she reverted to Indian ?
All identity politics all the time with them isn’t it? That shows you how utterly shallow they are.
Tampon Tim was a DEI pick, he was selected because he is a White male.
Poor Timmy Fudd. He’s huntin wabbits. Sargeant Major Swan Lake. It looks like 107 Daze thinks Petey Bootigeig is more of a man than the Sargeant Major is.
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