MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to her Monday show to promote her new book and label her the “Patron saint of 'I told you so'” on how President Trump represents a threat to all things good and decent.
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Finally, Maddow lamented:
You say in the book really bluntly that your personal first choice for your running mate would have been Pete Buttigieg and you praised him effusively. You say he would have been an ideal partner ‘if I were a straight man.’ And you say effectively that demographically it was. It was too much to ask of the American people to ask them to elect you with him as your running mate… It's hard to hear. With you running, as you know, you're the first woman elected vice president. You're a black woman and a South Asian woman elected to that high office, very nearly elected president, to say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was gay. It's hard to hear.
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