Overview

• In an excerpt published by The Atlantic, Kamala Harris writes that Pete Buttigieg was her preferred running mate but that a Black woman paired with a gay man posed a risk she was unwilling to take.
• Harris says Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” adding that she felt the electoral stakes were too high to test voters’ tolerance for multiple identities.
• She ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and the Harris–Walz ticket lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
• Harris describes a close friendship with Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, and says he understood her decision “to our mutual sadness.”
• Spokespeople for Harris and Buttigieg declined to comment, and Harris’s book, 107 Days, is set to be published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster.