“Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he would be willing to work with a Trump administration if he wins the 2024 presidential election.
“What’s best for the country? That’s what I care about. Look, let me just add if Trump wins last time when he won, he asked me to help on healthcare [and] on PPE,” Cuban said.
“I sat with Peter Navarro and helped him come up with a mask company and helped them grow. That was all domestic production,” he continued.
“I’ll do the same thing. I’m America first,” he added.
“You know, that’s the wrong way to put it. I am, what’s best for this country, country over party, country over all,” he said.
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However, Cuban still supports Harris for the job.
“I just think Kamala Harris, without any question in my mind, is the better candidate and the better president for this country,” he said, according to Fox Business.
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Fox Business reports:
During the lengthy interview, Kernen pressed Cuban about what exactly he liked about Harris after Cuban claimed Harris’ support for taxing unrealized investment returns would “kill the stock market.”
Cuban reiterated it’s “absolutely not going to happen” and told Kernen that if Harris had “lied about it, I would campaign against her so there wouldn’t be a second term.”
Cuban said he supported Harris’ pledge to not increase taxes on small businesses, and to cut prescription costs as ways to help the economy. He also argued that Trump’s mass deportation plan would hurt businesses who have immigrants on their payroll.
“Kamala Harris has said she is going to have very specific procedures for law-abiding non-citizens for the processes they’ll have to follow to either stay or leave,” Cuban said.
“You want that to be sane, you want that to be transparent, you want there to be a specific process for everybody to follow. You don’t want Elián González type scenarios. That is horrible for business,” he continued.
Cuban has been a visible surrogate on behalf of Harris since she replaced President Biden atop the Democratic ticket nearly three months ago.
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Cuban also claimed that Harris was battling Elon Musk on the campaign trail just as much as Trump.
He touched on Musk’s $1 million giveaway for registered voters in Pennsylvania if they signed his Super PAC’s petition supporting the First and Second Amendments.
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Per Business Insider:
The billionaire businessman Mark Cuban on Monday said the presidential campaign had become a battle between Vice President Kamala Harris and Tesla CEO Elon Musk rather than Donald Trump.
Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Cuban said Harris was fighting against Musk, a campaign surrogate for Trump, as much as she was against her political rival, saying the outcome of this year’s election would hinge on voter turnout — an issue Musk has made a priority in recent weeks.
“Really it comes down to ‘get out the vote,'” said Cuban, who has campaigned on behalf of Harris. “And the crazy thing is, it’s the Harris campaign versus Elon — not even versus Trump.”
Musk, who first endorsed Trump in July before launching his super PAC in support of the former president, has prioritized increasing voter turnout ahead of the election.