So, Kamala Harris is out here doing the media rounds for her new memoir, 107 Days, and managed to turn what should’ve been a softball interview with Rachel Maddow into an awkward squirm-fest worthy of a bad episode of Veep. The headline moment? Maddow asked why Harris didn’t pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year when she was gearing up for her own presidential run. The answer? Brace yourself—because apparently Pete was “too effeminate” for America to handle. That’s not from some right-wing blog. That’s from Kamala’s own book.
Seriously.
In the memoir, Harris says, “Buttigieg would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man.” She goes on to say, “We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man.” Translation? She figured adding a gay man to the ticket might cause America to short-circuit. And just like that, Kamala accidentally said the quiet part out loud.
Naturally, Pete Buttigieg responded like a true D.C. politician—surprised and just polite enough not to start a civil war in the Democratic Party. But it was clear he didn’t appreciate being told he was a political liability because of who he is. I mean, imagine the outcry if a conservative had said something like this. They’d be tarred and feathered on every late-night talk show and exiled from polite society. But when Kamala does it? Rachel Maddow gently nudges her for clarification.
Maddow, to her credit, at least tried to ask the obvious question: how does the “historic first female vice president” justify throwing a gay man under the bus for political convenience? Kamala’s answer? A word salad of buzzwords, platitudes, and excuses that basically amounted to, “Trump is scary, time was short, I panicked.” Oh, and don’t worry—she reminded us she’s been a lifelong LGBT ally, so everything’s fine, right?
NEW: Kamala Harris says she couldn’t pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he is gay and there was only 107 days.
Maddow: To say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay, it's hard to hear.
Harris: No no no that's not what I said… with the… pic.twitter.com/sKFGmWsg9G
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 23, 2025
Except it’s not. This whole exchange just exposed what so many people already know about the modern Democratic Party: all their talk about diversity, inclusion, and breaking barriers goes right out the window the second it gets politically inconvenient. For all her lecturing about equality, Kamala made it clear she believed America wasn’t ready for two “historic” candidates. So Pete got benched.
In the end, Kamala didn’t sound like a trailblazing leader. She sounded like someone terrified of her own base, second-guessing every decision through the lens of identity politics. And if that’s how you’re making campaign decisions, maybe you’re not ready to be commander-in-chief.
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