Buttigieg says voters deserve ‘more credit than that’ after learning about Harris VP snub

Published September 18, 2025 10:13pm ET



Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg publicly disagreed with former Vice President Kamala Harris’s judgment in deciding against choosing him as vice president.

Harris wrote in her latest book, 107 Days, that picking Buttigieg would have been “too big of a risk” and that America wasn’t ready for a black woman president and a gay vice president.

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