Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban hasn’t ruled out running for president as an independent.
“We’ll see what happens. It would take the perfect storm for me to do it,” Cuban said on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” “There’s some things that could open the door, but I’m not projecting or predicting it right now.”
“I still think there’s a real opportunity for somebody who is in the middle but has some charisma, has the ability to relate to both sides but is not a politician. The reality is people don’t trust politicians,” he added.
Cuban, who has teased a presidential run in the past, said that “nobody right now” in the field of more than 20 Democrats has the best chance of beating President Trump.
“If you look at why people voted for Donald Trump, in my opinion, first and foremost it was because he wasn’t a politician,” Cuban said. “Politicians are the least trusted of every profession.”
Cuban, 60, described the policy proposals floated by some of the Democratic contenders as “headline porn,” saying that he doesn’t even think the candidates believe what they are proposing is passable.
“I think that trickle-down economics is a failure. I think trickle-down taxation is just as big a failure,” he said.
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, 65, said in January that he was considering running for president as an independent. The decision drew ire from Democrats who worry that a Schultz run would cut into the Democratic share of the vote and help Trump.
