Mark Cuban admits he only sup­port­ed Kamala Har­ris because ‘she wasn’t Don­ald Trump’

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Mark Cuban admits he only supported Kamala Harris because ‘she wasn’t Donald Trump’

Bil­lion­aire Mark Cuban revealed that his sup­port for for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris stemmed from how “she wasn’t Don­ald Trump” when asked in a new inter­view why he cam­paigned for Har­ris in 2024.

Cuban was one of sev­er­al celebri­ties to sup­port Har­ris in her pres­i­den­tial cam­paign bid against then-pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Don­ald Trump, which includ­ed an appear­ance at a Wis­con­sin ral­ly. In a one-on-one dis­cus­sion with Stephen A. Smith, the for­mer Shark Tank host was asked what drew him to sup­port­ing Har­ris despite “how chaot­ic things looked” for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, to which he sim­ply said, “Because she wasn’t Don­ald Trump.”

Smith then asked if Cuban would have vot­ed dif­fer­ent­ly if the Repub­li­can Party’s pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee was some­one oth­er than Trump, such as for­mer U.N. Ambas­sador Nik­ki Haley or Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL). In response, Cuban point­ed to how he vot­ed for Haley in the Texas pri­ma­ry, adding that while he did not see eye-to-eye with Haley on every­thing, he would have “con­sid­ered” sup­port­ing her if she were the nom­i­nee for pres­i­dent. 

Cuban also said he did not want to throw Har­ris “under the bus,” con­tend­ing that she is “smarter than what peo­ple give her cred­it for.” How­ev­er, he crit­i­cized her cam­paign staff, argu­ing they held her back from doing “basic things that would have made a lot of dif­fer­ence.”

Going for­ward, Cuban said he has spo­ken to the Trump admin­is­tra­tion about health­care and the cost of phar­ma­cy, cit­ing his suc­cess with Cost­Plus, his online phar­ma­cy com­pa­ny. He added that he is “all about Team USA,” and expressed a desire to help the coun­try regard­less of who is pres­i­dent.

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“If I can help cut the cost of health­care in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, it doesn’t mat­ter who the pres­i­dent is, whether I like him or dis­like him, I’m going to do what I can,” Cuban said.

Fol­low­ing Elec­tion Day, Cuban con­grat­u­lat­ed both Trump and Elon Musk on the elec­tion results, stat­ing that Trump won the elec­tion “fair and square.”