Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s book tour is going about as well as expected, which is not very well at all. She wrote that then-President Joe Biden’s initial desire to run for reelection was “recklessness,” that Gov. It betrays a simpler and more obvious explanation that Harris was a weak candidate and VP to an unpopular president. In the book, Harris argues that she really wanted to choose then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, as her running mate, but felt that the country wasn’t ready for all those firsts. Sure, Harris is right that presidential campaigns are grueling and a feeble, elderly man was not up to the task.