Former Shark tank star Mark Cuban stated that he was tried as a potential companion of presidency candidate Kamala Harris during the election of 2024.
The owner of the minorities of Dallas Mavericks, 66, told the “Bulwark” Podcast on Friday, June 20, which was in contact with the Harris campaign before the Governor of Minnesota Tim Waltz He was chosen as a race companion in August 2024.
Crowd Tim Miller He said he had heard “gossip of the green room in MSNBC” about Cuban negotiations with Harris and asked if Cuban refused to send “VP Vetting papers” because “the list would be too long.”
“Yes,” Cuban responded. “The second part of this, my answer, was that I am not very good as a number two.”
Cuban continued: “The last thing we need is to say in Kamala, you know, the president, that” no, this is a dumb idea. “
The tycoon coincided with Miller’s assessment that the 2024 presidential campaign would have been completely “different” if he had finished as a VP candidate.
“Obviously, it would have been different,” he said. “My personality is completely different from those of Tim. My experiences, my background are different. I think, I cut the s *** more directly. I’m not a politician.”
Then he joked, “It would have been different but would have been horrible! I would have fired in six days.”
Mark Cuban in March 2025.
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Although Cuban is independent registered, he has been a political and business enemy for some time now Donald Trump. Cuban approved Harris and campaigned with her, before his loss in Trump in the general election of November 2024.
“You want a positive president, who will inspire you to do great things.” Cuban said on the campaign court last year. “You don’t want a president to shout in America a bin.”
The investor billionaire has flirted with presidential politics in the past. Told him to the New York Daily News In 2019, it was “firmly raised” as a candidate for the independent presidency in the 2020 election.
Later confirmed the “Ax rows” Podcast In June 2020 he arrived until a sample survey against Trump and Joe BidenBut the results showed that it was “only able to climb up to 25%” in a hypothetical three -way game. As a result of this poll, Cuban stopped exploring an independent offer for the White House.
Mark Cuban was a great problem in the ABC shark shark. Since joining the program as a guest investor in the second season, Cuban, 66, has contributed his business skills and honest comments to hundreds of businessmen in the hope of receiving an investment from the owner of Dallas Mavericks. “The fact that Mark Cuban saw potential at (…)
The Cuban is fresh their output As in Shark tank Investor. He announced in March that he left the ABC reality competition after 15 seasons.
“I remember thinking that this program will not last,” Cuban said in the May season “just keep there, tear it up, raise hell, cause trouble. I really didn’t expect a third season and then exploded.”
He added: “What I would like to say is thanks to everyone who had the opportunity for me, to all the businessmen who said yes. Who knows how many millionaires we have created, how many people have we inspired us? I am proud of what we have done.”