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Kamala Harris was considering Mark Cuban as her running mate, but the billionaire flat out rejected the campaign, explaining he wasn't the type to play second fiddle ... saying for that reason, I'm out!

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00:00So for a while, people have talked about the possibility of Mark Cuban potentially running

00:04for president of the United States. Well, apparently Kamala Harris was interested in him

00:11potentially being her vice president. At least that's what Mark Cuban told Tim Miller on the

00:17Bulwark podcast. They asked you to send in VP vetting papers and you said, no, the list would

00:24be too long. Is that true? It is true. I'm not very good as the number two person. And so if the last

00:31thing we need is me telling Kamala, you know, the president that, no, that's a dumb idea. Right.

00:37And I'm not real good at the shaking hands. Well, I don't know about that. If it was you

00:41instead of Tim Walls, who the hell knows? I don't know. It feels maybe different. It feels maybe

00:48different. I mean, obviously it would have been different. My personality is completely different

00:52than Tim's. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. I think I've cut through

00:57more directly. I'm not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been

01:04awful. She would have fired me. It would have been better than present situation, you know?

01:09Well, yes, that's true. So I got to say something about Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban is the Donald Trump

01:16on the other side. And, um, and I say that not because of Donald Trump's personality, but Mark

01:26Cuban's personality is as big as Donald Trump's personality, but he emotes differently. And there

01:34has been a lot of talk about Mark Cuban running for president. He won't do it for a reason. And it

01:41has to do, in fact, I did a, um, I did an episode of Objectified with Mark and, um, and he talked

01:49to me about this, um, interestingly about the party he'd probably run on. Are you a Democrat

01:55or Republican? I'm fiercely independent. But if you run, you're going to have to run one

01:59or the other. Um, maybe. Well, if you had to choose, what would you choose? Probably Republican.

02:04How come? Because I think there's a place for, um, somebody who is socially a centrist,

02:12but I'm, I'm very fiscally conservative. I wouldn't run unless I have solutions. If I

02:17have solutions, then I have something to offer. If I don't, you won't see me anywhere near being

02:22a politician. This was done, I, I, around 2018. And it was, it was at a different time

02:28when Mark was really considering it. The reason he didn't, and I pressed him on this for a long

02:35time, over a long period of time, and I believe him, it has to do with his kids, that he wanted

02:39to raise his kids and be a present dad. Yeah. And he felt if he did this, it just wouldn't

02:46be the case. A lot of people wanted him to run. And I think now, if he did, he'd definitely

02:52do it as a Democrat. It's interesting. Obviously, now his kids are almost 10 years, uh, older.

02:56So it would be very interesting. I would love to know the answer to what would have happened

03:00if Mark Cuban was her running mate, Kamala's running mate, instead of Tim Walz. I certainly

03:05think they would have done better. Obviously the Democrats did not do well with men. I

03:09think Mark Cuban is very popular with men and I think he would have really helped. He would

03:12have bolstered that ticket. Whereas I don't think that Tim Walz did anything positive for

03:16her. No, nothing. And, and here's the thing is that Kamala Harris's biggest problem was

03:22that she felt like more of the same. And Mark Cuban feels different. He feels fresh. He

03:29feels interesting. People would be drawn to him. It's a different storyline. And so I

03:35think he would have been a big plus. But it's interesting. He said he didn't want to be number

03:38two, which by the way, is also what Josh Shapiro said to her behind the scenes, the Pennsylvania

03:43governor who a lot of people wanted her to pick. And he was having problems with this concept

03:48of being number two. He wanted to be number one. She was very comfortable with Tim Walz

03:52was like, I'm happy to be number two. And then he performed very much like a number two.

03:56Like a number two. Here's my question. If Mark did this, and this is no shade on Kamala Harris,

04:02but I think you're right. She was more the same. He is so different. If he eclipses her,

04:09that when she speaks and then he speaks and people say, wow, listen to him, does that hurt her?

04:14And it's something that she is very conscious of, that kind of thing too. And she knows what

04:20it's like having been a vice president herself. It's one of the reasons a lot of people think

04:25she picked Walz.

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