New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Former US Vice President Kamala Harris detailed why she ultimately chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate in the 2024 election, instead of her first choice, Pete Buttigieg.

Harris, in an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, 107 Days, obtained by The Atlantic, described Buttigieg, the openly gay former transportation secretary, as her "first choice" for the vice-presidential slot but later concluded he was "too big of a risk" for the ticket.

"Buttigieg would have been an ideal partner - if I were a straight white man," Harris wrote.

She added, "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 ...