Mark Cuban, a former Haley backer, attends Biden fundraiser as president pushes to peel off GOP votes
Source: ABC News
March 20, 2024, 11:24 PM
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban, who voted for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the 2024 GOP primary and is now supporting President Joe Biden, attended the president's second fundraiser in Dallas on Wednesday night.
Biden's appearance with Cuban, the former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is part of the president's larger effort to court donors and supporters of Nikki Haley following her exit from the race. Cuban is one of the main sharks of the ABC reality television series Shark Tank and will exit the show in 2025. He confirmed his attendance late Wednesday night, telling ABC News he "wanted to show my support and say hi to the President."
At the fundraiser in the backyard of a sprawling home in a wealthy Dallas neighborhood, Biden dug into his differences with former President Donald Trump and asked the iconic question coined by Ronald Reagan: "Are you better off now than four years ago?" "Let me ask you – does anyone here want to go back to 2020? When fear ruled our lives and Trump was president? I don't think so," Biden said, calling on "Democrats, independents and Republicans," to join together to defeat Trump once again.
A source familiar told ABC News the Biden campaign has also been hosting Zoom calls with former donors of Haley since she suspended her campaign on March 6. Cuban, who says he cast his ballot in Texas for Haley, told Bloomberg earlier this month that he would vote for Biden over Trump.
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... for saying out loud what the other billionaires are all thinking to themselves.
"Keep America Trumpless"
Although the, "Are you better off," question probably doesn't apply to Cuban. He probably got the trump tax breaks.
