Mark Cuban revealed Thursday he would not be running for president during the 2020 cycle.
The billionaire Shark Tank investor told former Obama adviser David Axelrod on his podcast, The Axe Files, that he hired a pollster to assess his prospects and the findings weren’t promising.
“In a three-way between me, [Joe] Biden, and [President] Trump, I dominated the independent vote — I got like 77% percent of it and was able to take some votes away from Donald and some votes away from Biden,” Cuban said. “But in aggregate, I was only able to get up to 25%. From every which way, crosstab, you name it, I had it analyzed and scrutinized every which way, projected, and they could only see me getting up to 25%. That’s why I didn’t pursue it further.”
In late April, Cuban told Yahoo Finance that “behind the scenes,” he was “keeping the doors open” to a potential run. In September of last year, Cuban told Neil Cavuto on Fox News that he had decided not to run due to his family’s opposition. He told Cavuto, “If you can change their mind, I’m all in.”
Cuban aired the possibility of a run in 2016 and told TNT’s Steam Room last month, “2024 is never out of the question.”
