Billionaire and top Harris campaign surrogate Mark Cuban congratulated Donald Trump on his apparent victory in the 2024 presidential election early on Wednesday morning.
“Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed,” wrote Cuban on X, formerly Twitter, at 1:23 a.m..
Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square.
Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) November 6, 2024
Cuban’s post came just two minutes after Decision Desk HQ projected that Trump had won enough electoral votes to move back into the White House, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
The billionaire became a prominent and impassioned Harris surrogate over the course of her short campaign. In one notable appearance on The View last week, Cuban argued that “you never see him [Trump] around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them and, you know, Nikki Haley will call him on his nonsense with reproductive rights and how he sees and treats and talks about women. I mean, he just can’t have her around. It wouldn’t work.”
Trump and his campaign took advantage of the comments by framing them as a personal attack on Trump’s female supporters.
On Truth Social, Trump clapped back by submitting that “Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong. This guy is such a fool, he’s constantly on Television being critical, and only for the reason that I tuned him out completely while President because he called incessantly.”
“Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out! He should go back to talk about the person he was forced to support, because I didn’t want it, Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” he added.
Harris herself has not yet conceded the election. Her campaign has said that she will address the country on Wedensday.
