Mark Cuban is revealing why he turned down a proposal to submit himself for consideration to grow to be Kamala Harris‘ operating mate in her 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
The Shark Tank star made a current look on The Bulwark podcast, the place host Tim Miller informed him, “Anyone I type of belief stated that they requested you to ship in VP vetting papers and also you stated, ‘No, the listing could be too lengthy.’ Is that true?”
Cuban confirmed the rumors however admitted there’s one more reason he opted out of submitting himself to be Harris’ vp.
“The second a part of that, my response was I’m not superb because the quantity two particular person,” the billionaire and outspoken supporter of the Harris marketing campaign stated. “And so if the very last thing we want is me telling Kamala, you realize, the president that, ‘No, that’s a dumb concept.’ Proper? And I’m not actual good at shaking arms and kissing infants.”
Harris in the end chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vp. Nevertheless, 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 “perhaps totally different” if it have been him standing alongside Harris, as an alternative of Walz.
“Clearly it might have been totally different. My persona is totally totally different than Tim’s, my experiences, my backgrounds are utterly totally different. I believe I minimize by way of the shit extra immediately. I’m not a politician, and so it might have been totally different, however it might have been terrible. She would have fired me that very same day,” he responded with amusing.
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.”