Politics

The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose

“I love Pete,” she writes in her new book. But picking a gay man would have been too risky.

First published in The Atlantic on September 17, 2025.

by Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic
September 25, 2025 | reading time: 5 Min.

Updated at 1:40 p.m. ET on September 18, 2025.

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