Mark Cuban reveals why he turned down Kamala Harris’s VP provide in 2024 | EUROtoday

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has revealed that Kamala Harris invited him to submit vetting supplies as a way to be thought of as her operating mate final 12 months, however he declined.

In an interview with The Bulwark’s Tim Miller on Thursday, the host requested the previous Shark Tank actuality TV character about rumors linking him to the failed Harris marketing campaign.

“There was some green room gossip at MSNBC,” Miller mentioned. “You ready for this? You ready? I wouldn’t tell you this if it wasn’t pretty good. Somebody I kind of trust said that they asked you to send in VP vetting papers and you said, ‘No, the list would be too long.’ Is that true?”

“It is true,” replied Cuban, who as soon as supported Donald Trump however remained a distinguished Harris supporter all through the 2024 marketing campaign whereas denying harboring any ambition to serve in her cupboard ought to she win.

“Why didn’t you consider, I mean, you ended up there campaigning with her, advising her,” Miller requested.

The Dallas Mavericks proprietor replied: “The second part of that, my response was I’m not very good as the number two person. And so if the last thing we need is me telling Kamala, you know, the president that, no, that’s a dumb idea. Right. And I’m not real good at the shaking hands and kissing babies.”

Harris in the end selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential nominee from a ultimate three that additionally included Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

Walz initially loved success together with his assault on Trump and JD Vance, labeling them as “weird,” and providing a pleasant, folksy, blue-collar different that in the end proved insufficiently interesting to forestall a Republican win.

Miller instructed Cuban that he had offered himself quick with that unfavourable evaluation of his personal qualities.

“I don’t know about that. I mean, I was talking to Pete Buttigieg a couple of weeks ago and I was like… I want to, you know, give you a time machine. We’re going to go back in a DeLorean. Like, what can we do different?” he mentioned.

“So I want to ask you that same question, but also in the context, like if it was you instead of Tim Walz, who the hell knows? I don’t know. It feels maybe different. It feels maybe different.”

Cuban responded: “I mean, obviously it would have been different. My personality is completely different than Tim’s. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. I think I’ve cut through the s*** more directly. I’m not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been awful.

“She would have fired me within six days!” he joked.

“It would have been better than the present situation, you know?” Miller insisted.

“Well, yes, that’s true. But, you know, I really thought she was going to win,” Cuban answered.

The interviewer concluded: “Here’s why I want to pick on that. And I know you don’t want the clip here. You’re like, ‘We would have won if Mark Cuban was VP.’ And I get that. I don’t even know if I believe that, but maybe.

“I think it would have been meaningfully different in a way that like picking Josh Shapiro or whatever wouldn’t have been meaningfully different in a way that’s kind of hard to predict.”