"Pete "would have been an ideal - 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," Kamala wrote, according to The Atlantic. "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 knewe that - to our mutual sadness," Kamala added."
"According to Politico, Pete referenced how former president Barack Obama won Indiana in the 2008 election and his two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to support his perspective. "You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them," he said. "Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.""
Kamala Harris considered Pete Buttigieg as a potential vice presidential pick but decided against it because pairing a Black woman married to a Jewish man with a gay man on the same ticket felt too risky. Harris believed asking voters to accept multiple historic firsts at once would jeopardize electoral success. Pete Buttigieg said he was surprised by the revelation and argued that Americans deserve more credit, citing Barack Obama’s win in Indiana and his own mayoral record. Buttigieg emphasized that politics should focus on delivering results for voters. Online commenters criticized Buttigieg’s optimism, citing past unexpected election outcomes and voter attitudes.
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