Pete Buttigieg thinks Americans deserve more credit — and that they’d vote for a Black woman and a gay man on the same presidential ticket one day.
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If you haven’t heard, former vice president Kamala Harris said Gov. Tim Walz wasn’t her top choice for running mate in the 2024 election.
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In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir 107 Days published by the Atlantic, Kamala revealed that she was eyeing the then-Secretary of Transportation to be her vice presidential nominee. She wrote that Pete “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man.”
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“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.”
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“And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness,” Kamala added.
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Well, Pete responded. On Thursday, Pete told Politico that he was “surprised” to read that excerpt from Kamala’s book, but believes in giving “Americans more credit.”
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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.”
Pete told Politico that Kamala’s concerns, which she addressed in her upcoming book, were “not something that we ever talked about.” But it seems like the internet really wishes they did.
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People had a lot to say about Pete’s reaction in this Reddit thread, and they’re not holding back on how they feel about giving America credit.
“‘I believe in giving Americans more credit than that,’no offence but LMAOOOOOOOOOOO ok,” one person wrote.
Someone else said, “Hilarious that running with a gay man was risky but glazing the Chenneys and their ‘legacy’ was seen as a winning strategy though.”
This person said, “Americans don’t deserve more credit than that. They haven’t earned it. [Kamala] was right,” and this person added, “Harris is a realist and he’s an idealist. She’s right but I wish he was.”
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“Why would you possibly give more credit? This country is too scared to even have a woman president,” one person said.
And finally, someone said, “With all due respect to Pete, come the fuck on. They elected that orange before they even elected a woman. It’s time to live in the real world,” followed by someone asking, “Have you met our fellow Americans, Pete? Really?”
What are your thoughts about Pete’s reaction to Kamala saying she wanted him to be her running mate for the 2024 election?
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