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Mark Cuban declared at a Saturday event that the biggest lesson he learned by boosting Kamala Harris last year was that “Democrats can’t sell worth shit.”
Cuban joined the Principles First summit in Washington where he discussed a path forward for Democrats after President Donald Trump’s 2024 election win. The party not only lost the White House but also the Senate – while Republicans retained their House majority.
Saturday, Principles First founder Heath Mayo asked Cuban about his role as a surrogate for Harris’s campaign. In candid comments at the summit, Cuban criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration on issues like immigration — calling his handling of the southern border “awful.”
Despite the critique, the Shark Tank investor ultimately chalked Democrats’ November losses up to a lack of salesmanship. While he had plenty of criticism for Trump, he opined the president, if nothing else, could sell a winning message.
Check out Cuban’s thoughts on Democrats and the 2024 election below:
HEATH MAYO: You were on the campaign trail this past election cycle. I think we saw you out there more than we’ve seen you in the past. Did you like it? What did you learn?
MARK CUBAN: “It was kind of fun actually. I learned that the Democrats can’t sell worth shit. And they’re so, you know, persnickety about every little detail and that’s why the Republicans at the presidential level — I don’t want to say kicked their ass because it wasn’t a runaway, but like I said, Donald Trump can sell. If you gave the Democrats a dollar bill and said, you can sell these for 50 cents, they would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and then would not know how to sell a dollar bill for 50 cents.
If you gave it to Donald Trump and said sell this dollar bill for two dollars, he’d figure out a way. He’d tell you that two dollar bill is huge, it’ll get you gold tennis shoes, it’ll get you a Trump meme coin. That’s the problem and that’s what I learned. And so I got to a point at the first event I went to, I said to the Harris people, you’re not allowed to say a word to me, I don’t care what you think. I’m just going to do what I think is right, and that’s what I tried to go out there and do.”
Cuban was also asked at the summit if he was ready to run for president but shot down the idea.
“Hell no. No. No. No, it’s not going to happen,” he said.
The Principles First summits are described as one that offers “the nation’s leading voices in defense of classical liberalism” to offer “principled, common-sense solutions to America’s problems.”
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