Mark Cuban says he’ll vote for President Joe Biden this November, even if he’s on his deathbed.
“If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban said in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday.
The billionaire investor spoke with Bloomberg after attending a drug pricing roundtable at the White House. Cuban co-founded Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Co., a low-cost internet pharmacy.
A Cuban told BI via email that he expects a predictable rematch between Biden and former President Donald Trump in November.
“That’s what polls show. “There is no reason to think otherwise,” Cuban told BI.
Cubans’ dislike for Trump goes back years. In 2016, Cuban stated that he has a “love-hate relationship” with Trump.
“There’s that guy who’ll walk into the bar and say anything to get laid,” Cuban remarked of Trump during an interview with Anthony Scaramucci at the 2016 SkyBridge Alternatives Conference.
In November 2020, Cuban stated that he did not believe Biden and Trump were the “best and brightest” presidential contenders the US has to offer.
“We are now seeing the downside of having a political duopoly,” Cuban explained on The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast.
Concerns about Biden’s age have been percolating since he declared his reelection campaign in April.
In February, a special counsel report on Biden’s handling of confidential documents stated that the president had memory problems.
According to US Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, Biden presented himself during interviews “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden has vehemently refuted that accusation, and a Democratic Party candidate is unlikely to succeed him.
The Cuban told Bloomberg that he will vote for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Texas GOP primary on Tuesday, describing it as a “protest against Trump.”
On Sunday, Haley won her first GOP primary in Washington, D.C. The triumph, however, will provide little consolation to Haley, as she is well behind Trump in terms of delegates.
Haley has 43 delegates, roughly six times fewer than Trump’s 244. To clinch the Republican presidential candidacy, candidates must obtain 1,215 delegates.
Trump and Haley will square off again on Super Tuesday, with 15 state primaries scheduled for March 5.
