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Mark Cuban Says Kamala Harris Considered Him for Vice President

Mark Cuban Says Kamala Harris Considered Him for Vice President
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Mark Cuban Says Kamala Harris Considered Him for Vice President

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Mark Cuban Says Kamala Harris Considered Him for Vice President

Kamala's Wild VP Pick

Billionaire entrepreneur and former Shark Tank star Mark Cuban recently dropped a political bombshell: he came this close to being Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick for the 2024 election — but turned it down for a surprisingly down-to-earth reason.

“I’m just not a ‘Number Two’ kind of guy,” Cuban confessed during his appearance on The Bulwark podcast on June 20.

According to Cuban, Harris’s team reached out to him before ultimately choosing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her VP in August 2024. The podcast’s host, Tim Miller, brought up whispers circulating in MSNBC’s green rooms — hinting that Cuban backed out due to concerns about the vetting process. Cuban didn’t deny it, but said his real reason was more about vibes than skeletons.

“I’m not wired to play second fiddle,” he said. “The last thing this country needs is me telling the president, ‘That’s a dumb idea.’”

The Dallas Mavericks co-owner added with a laugh, “Kamala would’ve fired me within a week. It would’ve been wild—but a total disaster.”

Though he’s never officially thrown his hat in the political ring, Cuban has teased the idea for years. Back in 2019, he told the New York Daily News he was eyeing an independent run for 2020 and even paid for polling. But when the numbers topped out at just 25% in a three-way race against Trump and Biden, he pulled the plug.

A longtime critic of Donald Trump, Cuban ended up endorsing Harris in 2024 and even hit the campaign trail alongside her. “You want a leader who lifts people up, not one who trashes the country,” he told supporters at the time.

Despite the support, Harris lost to Trump in November 2024—and now Cuban’s left wondering what might’ve happened if he’d said “yes” instead of “nah.”

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