Overview

• Harris’s memoir “107 Days” says she passed on Pete Buttigieg for vice president because pairing a Black woman with a gay man was “too big of a risk.”
• On The Weekly Show, Jon Stewart highlighted that passage during a conversation with DNC Chair Ken Martin about voter trust, calling the rationale “reverse affirmative action.”
• He argued the explanation undercuts Democratic messaging on inclusion by exposing behind-the-scenes calculations.
• Harris told dow Rachel Maddow Show that she did not mean Buttigieg was disqualified for being gay, describing her choice as a compressed, high-stakes judgment and affirming her LGBT allyship.
• Buttigieg told Politico he was surprised by the account and said leaders should give Americans more credit regarding such a ticket.