Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her “first choice” to be her running mate, but decided against it because picking a gay man would be “too big of a risk.”

In an excerpt of her upcoming book, 107 Days , obtained by the Atlantic , Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.”

“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” the former vice president lamented. “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,” she added.

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