(WNDU) - Former Vice President Kamala Harris is elaborating on why she decided against former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year despite saying she favored him personally during an interview on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”

According to NBC News , in excerpts published ahead of the release of her new book, Harris wrote Buttigieg was her “first choice” as someone “well qualified in so many respects,” and that “he would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.”

Harris said on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday that while she potentially “was being too cautious,” she worried adding Buttigieg to the ticket would be too risky.

“In one of the most hotly contested elections for president of the United States — against someone like Donald Tr

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