Kamala Harris continue to deflect and blame everyone but herself for her disastrous 2024 presidential campaign in which she lost in a landslide to President Donald Trump.
Just days after after excerpts from Harris’s book “107 Days” were published by The Atlantic, showing Harris directly blamed Joe Biden for her failed campaign, a new bombshell from her upcoming book was just released.
And Harris is now targeting women, minorities, and even homosexuals are part of the reason she lost.
In a new excerpt from the former vice president’s forthcoming book, “107 Days,” Harris claims she settled on Tim Walz to be her running mate last year because she felt Americans were too racist, antisemitic and homophobic to accept her preferred option — Pete Buttigieg.
In the book, Harris describes Buttigieg as her “first choice” but later deemed the openly gay former transportation secretary “too big of a risk” for the ticket.
Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris wrote.
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she continued.
“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.”
Harris continued to explain that at the time, Buttigieg topped her list of eight potential running mates because “he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
“And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”
“I love Pete,” she wrote.
“I love working with Pete. He and his husband, Chasten, are friends.”
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., famously burst onto the national political scene when he ran in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries.
Today, he is an early favorite to get the Democratic Party’s nomination in 2028.
An Emerson College survey published by The New York Post in June found Buttigieg leading Harris — 16% to 13% — in a hypothetical Democratic presidential primary, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (12%), Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (7%) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (7%) close behind.
Her latest admission, in an effort to likely boost book sales, comes after Harris blasted Biden’s decision to run for re-election as “recklessness” driven by personal ego and said his White House staff deliberately sabotaged her, which is the only reason she believes she lost to President Donald Trump.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” Harris wrote about Biden’s re-election attempt. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
Harris said that Democratic Party leaders should have been more aggressive in pushing Biden out of the race and supporting her, instead of repeating what she calls their hypnotized mantra.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris complained in the memoir about her failed 2024 campaign.
Harris also claimed Biden’s staff actively worked against her, and said she was viewed as a threat rather than an asset to the president.
“When polls indicated that I was getting more popular, the people around him didn’t like the contrast that was emerging,” Harris writes.
“None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him.”