Mark Cuban praised Vice President Kamala Harris for her “beautiful” efficiency in her Wednesday Fox Information interview with Bret Baier, noting that the Democratic nominee was three issues former President Donald Trump would by no means be: “Strong, Smart and Measured.”
“When Brett went hard after her. She didn’t call him names,” Cuban wrote Thursday on X, previously Twitter. “She didn’t quit the interview. She didn’t make things up. She never once complained the questions were tough. She never played the victim card.”
The outspoken billionaire naturally in contrast these traits to Trump’s. The Republican nominee fumed Monday in regards to the interview after it was introduced and stated on his social media platform that he would have “preferred seeing a more hard hitting journalist” sit reverse Harris.
“She didn’t lose her temper,” wrote Cuban in his social media put up. “She didn’t take the bait to diminish or talk down to Trump supporters. [He] has been the president and campaigning for 9 years. Kamala Harris has caught up to him in just 100 days. That speaks volumes.”
Cuban argued that these are the explanations “people want to vote for her,” together with “so many Republicans and Independents” who’ve jumped ship from their former events to endorse Harris, and stated she “is everything her opponent is not and will never be.”
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Whereas Harris supporters have echoed that reward on social media, her senior adviser David Plouffe described Wednesday’s interview as “an ambush.”
Professional-Trump voices, in the meantime, are arguing that it lasted below half-hour as a result of Harris couldn’t deal with the strain.
Baier himself claimed afterwards to fellow Fox Information anchors that Harris’ advisers motioned for him to finish the interview early, and stated he noticed “four people waving their hands, like, ‘It’s gotta stop.’”
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Present polls present Harris beating Trump by a few factors in November. Whereas Cuban is appropriate that a number of distinguished Republicans, together with Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah) and former Vice President Dick Cheney, have backed Harris over Trump, on the opposite facet of the aisle, progressives like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have condemned her for the Biden administration’s ongoing help of Israel’s conflict in Gaza.
Cuban has lengthy supported President Joe Biden and ceaselessly advocates for Harris on social media. However he was as soon as so shut with Trump that he repeatedly held lengthy conversations with him over the telephone — and even contemplated being his operating mate within the 2016 election.
“I don’t care what his actual positions are,” the previous majority proprietor of the Dallas Mavericks informed Business Insider in 2015. “I don’t care if he says the wrong thing. He says what’s on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.”
Cuban revealed on “The Daily Show” in August that he distanced himself from Trump earlier than he was ever elected, nonetheless, when Cuban purportedly urged him to fulfill with small enterprise house owners to win voters over in particular person — just for Trump to decry the thought.
“He goes, ‘Donald Trump and Mark Cuban don’t go to people’s houses and have dinner. Are you kidding me?’” Cuban recalled. “That’s who he is.”
