Mark Cuban is revealing why he turned down a suggestion to submit himself for consideration to turn out to be Kamala Harris‘ working mate in her 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
The Shark Tank star made a latest look on The Bulwark podcast, the place host Tim Miller instructed him, “Someone I form of belief mentioned that they requested you to ship in VP vetting papers and also you mentioned, ‘No, the record could be too lengthy.’ Is that true?”
Cuban confirmed the rumors however admitted there’s another excuse he opted out of submitting himself to be Harris’ vice chairman.
“The second a part of that, my response was I’m not excellent because the quantity two individual,” the billionaire and outspoken supporter of the Harris marketing campaign mentioned. “And so if the very last thing we’d like is me telling Kamala, , the president that, ‘No, that’s a dumb concept.’ Proper? And I’m not actual good at shaking fingers and kissing infants.”
Harris in the end chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice chairman. Nonetheless, Donald Trump ended up beating Harris within the 2024 election, securing a second time period within the White Home. Miller additionally requested Cuban if he thinks the election outcomes would have been “possibly totally different” if it have been him standing alongside Harris, as a substitute of Walz.
“Clearly it will have been totally different. My persona is totally totally different than Tim’s, my experiences, my backgrounds are utterly totally different. I feel I reduce via the shit extra immediately. I’m not a politician, and so it will have been totally different, however it will have been terrible. She would have fired me that very same day,” he responded with fun.
When Miller added that Cuban would have nonetheless been higher than the “current scenario” with Trump, because the president has confronted quite a few criticisms in his second time period over his dealing with of immigration, the economic system, tariffs, worldwide battle and extra, the previous Dallas Mavericks proprietor replied, “True, however I actually thought she [Harris] was going to win.”