Mark Cuban Reveals Kamala Harris Asked Him to be Considered For VP And He Turned Her Down

Billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV personality Mark Cuban told the Bulwark’s Tim Miller on Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris’s team had asked him to submit vetting materials to be considered for vice president during the 2024 campaign, but he turned her down.

Miller began, “There was some green room gossip at MSNBC. 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 was a prominent campaign surrogate for Harris last fall.

“Um, why didn’t you, why didn’t you consider, I mean, you ended up there campaigning with her, advising her,” Miller pressed.

“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,” Cuban added.

“I don’t know about that. I mean, I was talking to Pete Buttigieg a couple of weeks ago and I was like, I was like, give, 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? 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,” Miller pressed, suggesting Cuban would have helped Harris’s losing campaign more than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

“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 shit more directly. I’m not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been awful,” Cuban joked, adding, “She would have fired me within six days.”

“It would have been better than the present situation, you know?” Miller pushed back a bit.

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

“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,” Miller concluded.

Watch the clip above via the Bulwark.

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