NBA team owner Mark Cuban reveals he rejected stunning offer from Kamala Harris ahead of election loss to Trump

NBA team owner Mark Cuban reveals he rejected stunning offer from Kamala Harris ahead of election loss to Trump

NBA team minority owner Mark Cuban has revealed that Kamala Harris’ ticket for last November’s election could have looked very different. 

The former Shark Tank personality, who owns a 27 percent stake in the Dallas Mavericks, has shared that the former Vice President had reached out to him amid last year’s Race to the White House. 

The 66-year-old claimed that Harris’ team had asked him to submit vetting materials to be considered for her running mate in the 2024 campaign.

But Cuban, despite being outspoken in his opposition of Donald Trump, surprisingly turned the Democratic hopeful down. 

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller quizzed Cuban on the rumor Thursday, asking: ‘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?’

Cuban, who campaigned for Harris, admitted that it was before going on to explain why he pᴀssed over the offer. 

Talked to @mcuban for tomorrow’s pod and he tells me he declined an offer to be vetted for Kamala VP. What might have been! We also discuss the fallout of his decision to sell the Mavs but gotta wait til tomorrow for that. pic.twitter.com/hVrpeFYsSL

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) June 20, 2025 Mark Cuban revealed that Kamala Harris asked him to be her running mate last year Harris ultimately selected Tim Walz before losing to Donald Trump at the ballot box

Mark Cuban revealed that Kamala Harris asked him to be her running mate last year

‘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. 

Harris ultimately selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate but was defeated at the ballot box by Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 

‘I mean, obviously it would have been different,’ Cuban added. ‘My personality is completely different than Tim’s. My experiences, my backgrounds are completely different. 

‘I think I’ve cut through the s*** more directly. I’m not a politician. And so it would have been different, but it would have been awful,’ Cuban joked, ‘She would have fired me within six days.’

‘It would have been better than the present situation, you know?’ Miller retorted. 

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

Cuban hit out at Trump in the build up to last year’s election, taking aim at the president’s golf game in an email to DailyMail.com. 

‘I can out drive him by 100 yards,’ the 66-year-old Cuban wrote of the 78-year-old Trump in an email to DailyMail.com.

The former Shark Tank personality was openly critical of the president during the election

The former Shark Tank personality was openly critical of the president during the election 

It came after Trump had bizarrely claimed that Cuban has ‘really low clubhead speed’ and is ‘a total non-athlete.’

Typically Cuban has attacked Trump’s business acumen, understanding of tariffs, and his failure to hold his 2016 campaign promise of building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it.

‘This man has so little understanding of tariffs, he thinks that China pays for that. This is the same guy who also thought that Mexico would pay for the wall,’ Cuban told an audience in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

‘Did Mexico pay for that wall?,’ Cuban asked the crowd, who responded, ‘no.’

In addition to his bitter tiff with the president over their golf games last October, Cuban has been highly critical of Trump.

The entrepreneur campaigned for Harris in the buildup to her ultimate defeat at the ballot box last November and took aim at Trump’s inner circle.

‘Donald Trump – you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It’s just that simple,’ Cuban said on The View last November.

‘It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them,’ Cuban added.

Cuban openly supported the former Vice President, speaking at rallies along the campaign trail

Cuban openly supported the former Vice President, speaking at rallies along the campaign trail

Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the comments were ‘extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump, and the tens of millions of women who are proudly voting for him.’

Cuban later apologized, saying he ‘didn’t get it out exactly the way I thought I did.’

In August of last year, the wealthy ‘shark’ made it clear that his support had shifted from Trump to Harris after ‘he got to know him,’ according to Business Insider.

‘I actually started off supporting Donald, and then I got to know him better,’ Cuban told Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, during an interview last year.

‘I was like, he’s great – he’s not a typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive,’ he added. ‘But then I got to know him.’

However, he was one of the first members of Camp Kamala to publicly concede defeat on election night, sending a message of congratulations to Trump

The businessman sold a majority ownership of the Mavericks for $3.5 billion to the Adelson family in December 2023. Cuban still holds a 27 percent stake in the team.

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