Throughout a current look on “The Bulwark” podcast, Mark Cuban revealed he was invited to submit himself for consideration to develop into former Vice President Kamala Harris‘ working mate within the 2024 presidential election. Nevertheless, the “Shark Tank” star, an outward supporter of the Harris marketing campaign, turned the supply down.

Interviewer Tim Miller opened the section by prefacing that he had heard rumors at MSNBC that Cuban was tapped to hitch Harris on the marketing campaign path.

“There was some inexperienced room gossip at MSNBC,” Miller stated. “I wouldn’t let you know this if it wasn’t fairly good. Any individual I form of belief stated that they requested you to ship in VP vetting papers and also you stated, ‘No, the listing could be too lengthy.’ Is that true?”

Cuban confirmed the rumors to be true and elaborated on his resolution to bow out of the race.

“The second a part of that, my response was I’m not excellent because the quantity two individual,” Cuban defined. “And so if the very last thing we want is me telling Kamala, , the president that, ‘No, that’s a dumb concept.’ Proper? And I’m not actual good at shaking arms and kissing infants.”

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was the one in the end chosen to run alongside Harris. There was hypothesis that her runner-up selections would’ve been Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, former governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper or Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Donald Trump, who went on to win the 2024 election, chosen JD Vance as his vp.