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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

Paloma Valencia: I'm not going to distance myself from Uribe; I'm going to die a Uribe supporter'

Senator Paloma Valencia won Colombia's center-right primary with 3.2 million votes and refuses to abandon her criticism of the 2016 FARC peace agreement despite pressure from runner-up Juan Daniel Oviedo to become her vice-presidential running mate.
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fromAdvocate.com
5 months ago

Pete Buttigieg responds to Kamala Harris not choosing him as her running mate because he's gay

A gay male vice-presidential pick would not have been too risky for a Black woman presidential candidate; voters reward ability to deliver results over identity.
fromAdvocate.com
5 months ago

Kamala Harris reveals why she didn't pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024

"I love Pete," Harris writes in an excerpt obtained by The Atlantic. "I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends. But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. 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."
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