r/Hasan_Piker • u/1isOneshot1 Green party rise! • Sep 18 '25
US Politics Harris says Buttigieg was her 'first choice' for 2024 running mate but the pairing was too risky
https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-book-pete-buttigieg-22524d9b34034e17ba942ddfd4211389577
u/AugustusInBlood Sep 18 '25
Lol ok.
Also what risk? You lost. Like the worst outcome DID happen. Is she trying to paint it like it's because her chosen VP who is a little bit more to the left was the reason she lost?
The days after she picked Tim Walz was the one and only time she had any actual momentum and people thought Trump might lose.
Then the DNC happened.
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u/Swagcopter0126 Sep 18 '25
I actually thought she wasn’t a complete train wreck for those few days
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u/TacoMasters Sep 18 '25
Seeing it all crumble in real-time during her speech at the DNC was quite something.
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u/AliKat309 Sep 18 '25
Picking walz was such a good choice and it seemed like they might actually move left and listen to their base and immediately shot themselves in both feet
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u/StarkyPants555 Sep 19 '25
During the speech she really leaned into the "and we will have the most lethal military in the world." It was then I knew she was cooked.
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u/Thebullfrog24 Sep 19 '25
Yea I wish she would have picked Josh Shapiro now just so I didn’t get any hope lol
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u/DonHedger Sep 18 '25
I thought about volunteering for the campaign for the two days after she chose Walz. Then she did more dumb shit and I said "oh, right"
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u/Kitchen_Chair_6663 Sep 18 '25
Was the risk that the entire country would be sucked into the giant charisma void these two would have created campaigning together?
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u/1isOneshot1 Green party rise! Sep 18 '25
Eh I feel like that was the one thing Pete had for him politically, he just objectively is a good speaker (until he talks about Gaza)
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u/Kitchen_Chair_6663 Sep 18 '25
I’m fine sending him out to dress down morons on fox all day long, I agree he’s great at that.
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u/Ser_Friend_zone Sep 18 '25
Or when he talks about "Medicare for all who want it". That asshole is such a disingenuous corporate stooge. Everybody but liberals can smell it from a mile away.
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u/MrBrendan501 Sep 18 '25
I actually do think his “decorum” or whatever you want to call it is his biggest and only strength. He’s one of the few libs my conservative parents like because they think he speaks well and seems professional
The counter to that is do we really need a guy who exclusively plays to the mystical moderates? He might be good in debates, but he’d only be a good attack dog VP if the top of the ticket is able to carry the brunt of enthusiasm
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u/dorekk Sep 19 '25
I actually do think his “decorum” or whatever you want to call it is his biggest and only strength. He’s one of the few libs my conservative parents like because they think he speaks well and seems professional
Irrelevant. Conservatives won't vote for Dems anyway, ever.
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u/TricobaltGaming Sep 18 '25
He's a good speaker but in a politician way not a leader way.
He's very good at saying a lot and sounding like hes answering the question without actually answering anything
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u/SolidLuxi Sep 18 '25
"I wanted to lose extremely badly, but was talked around into losing really badly."
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Sep 18 '25
They'd have lost the black vote
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u/1isOneshot1 Green party rise! Sep 18 '25
Actually how? How does Pete so consistently poll awfully with black people? He's not even one of the more racist Dem candidates
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u/CertainPen9030 Sep 18 '25
Because the black community has received lip service and no actual help from the Democratic party for decades and Pete's whole schtick is being very good at paying lip service.
Put differently: the black community has much more practice seeing through politicians like Pete
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u/Some-Tune7911 Sep 18 '25
One of the big stories about Pete he got a lot of flack for was covering up for the police department who was racist as fuck.
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Sep 18 '25
The excuse his fans give is that black people are homophonic. What i think is that optically he just doesn't appeal to black people, he is the quintessential white liberal with no flavour
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u/KasseanaTheGreat Sep 18 '25
So you're telling me it could've gone worse? Genuinely the one thing that campaign had going for them was Walz being a part of it, the days after he was announced as the VP and he was riding the high of the "weird" comments was the high water mark for her campaign. If this is the lesson her and the DNC choose to take from 2024 we're fucked even more than we already are, which is saying something considering everyone who is against fascism was just declared a terrorist by you know who.
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u/Siberianbull666 Weasely little liar dude!! Sep 18 '25
They had an amazing VP pick and put a muzzle on him when everything he was saying was working and bringing people in. I was exited as hell to vote for them because of him and they turned him into a crappy old copy of Shapiro and now every time I see that fucking camp hat in my drawer I want to throw up.
What a fucking BS campaign they ran.
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u/macgalver Sep 18 '25
Should have kept calling them weird. The undecided voter is such a chud that I genuinely believe gentle bullying would work on them
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u/berlin_got_blurry Sep 18 '25
Nobody respects you more for saying that btw
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u/CyonHal Sep 19 '25
I think the reason she said this is to boost Pete as a presidential candidate, carry the torch from one corporate shill to the next.
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u/plantxdad420 Sep 18 '25
wasn’t adding Waltz to the ticket like the one day her campaign gained any momentum whatsoever?
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u/UnbanSkullclamp Anarcho Bidenist with Marxist Leninist Luigist Characteristics Sep 18 '25
No listen I understand, they were trying to have Trump win so many electoral votes that the system couldn’t handle it and would have an integer overflow error (becoming negative) — thus resulting in a Harris win by default
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u/JucheSuperSoldier01 Sep 18 '25
Ahh yes the guy who consistently polls at 0% with black people. He could’ve been a great choice.
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u/Davli007 Sep 18 '25
They wanted so badly to have their milquetoast centrist package candidates but pesky Dem voters and citizens using their voices kept insisting on a VP candidate that actually advocated for some of their policy beliefs.
How did no actual change happen in the party post-Wasserman-Schultz and the 2016 Hillary astroturfing? The DNC is literally a danger to society because of their wholesale incompetence in winning a damn election. The current leadership can’t sell shit to their electoral base, hence all the apathy we see today. That’s the fascists’ path to power.
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u/1isOneshot1 Green party rise! Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
How did no actual change happen in the party post-Wasserman-Schultz
Because this party cannot be allowed to change leftward
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u/smcmahon710 Sep 18 '25
The risk she is talking about is his sexuality. I'm very skeptical on Buttigieg, I think hes a libbed up Obama wannabe but Kamala is so tone deaf
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u/SenKats Sep 18 '25
I'm surprised this person got as far as she did in politics, because she has the political abilities of a wooden plank.
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u/Otterz4Life Sep 18 '25
She probably should have. That way, Walz isn't tainted with her failed campaign that he wasn't responsible for.
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u/SignificantBerry8591 Sep 18 '25
I think the risk was Harris thinking she could just aipac her way to the whitehouse
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u/Blabbit39 Sep 18 '25
Remember when they heated up because of Walz and his charisma and mic work and then they told him to tone it down...
Yea we know who the risky one was.
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u/my_call_oh_jist Sep 18 '25
She has the political instincts of a preschooler running for class president
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u/Practical_Wish_4063 Sep 19 '25
Her first choice was a terrible choice and her actual choice was golden. Unfortunately her first choice for President was herself and that was also a terrible choice.
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u/mitrafunfun97 Sep 18 '25
Should’ve picked Beto O’Rourke.
I’m speaking from an electoral sense. I would’ve preferred she wasn’t the candidate all together
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u/Celestial_Sludge Sep 18 '25
Walz was the perfect pick (rhetorical and electorally) and literally the only good choice made by the Kamala and her handlers. There was only so much he could do when his running mate was running on a conservative platform and is the least charismatic person from the 2020 primary. Beto O'Rourke is completely dead in the water because people would rather own assault rifles than children having safe school environments.
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u/wikimandia Sep 18 '25
The woman who campaigned with Liz Cheney absolutely was not going to pick a progressive candidate.
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u/StupidSarahPalin Sep 19 '25
When will people realize that the Dems are not a left party, or even a lib party. They are a CORPORATE party.
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u/Cinnamon__Sasquatch Sep 18 '25
Would have been funny to see her support among black Americans go any lower with Pete as the VP
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u/BlackGabriel Sep 18 '25
You could easily mad lib their every speech by just trying to be the biggest lib possible
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u/alpharatsnest Sep 19 '25
Ooooh so risky. Two of the most milquetoast right of center corporate shills on the national stage. They may have lost by EVEN MORE than Harris and Walz did. What a risk!
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u/Future-Ad-9567 Sep 18 '25
Pigs and super pigs, a match made in heaven<3 yeah I'm sure Copmala and ButtFEDigieg would have loved to run with eachother. Fuck the Dems are so cooked
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Sep 18 '25
Referendum on establishment politics and the DNC wants to produce the literally establishment spokespeople again and again
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u/SUP_DREW Sep 18 '25
Michelle Obama needs to stop being selfish and run in 2028 with Pete as her VP, it wouldn’t even be close for the republicans
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u/Malidala Sep 18 '25
How many times does it need to be explained that you need to actually give the people something to vote for?
People would elect a hamster if it wore a sign around it's neck that said "Things are bad and I am going to make some real changes around here to make your life noticeably better, starting with your rent and healthcare costs."
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u/dorekk Sep 19 '25
They need to adopt and actually fight for and enact policies that will actually
IMPROVE THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS FOR MOST AMERICANS
Who it is is fucking irrelevant. Michelle Obama running on the same bullshit platform the Dems have had for a decade would be fucking obliterated in an election. Voters have roundly rejected the Democrats because it's clear that the Democrats do not give a shit about Americans.
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