- The Shark Tank host asked if fans prefer Trump or Harris as role models.
Mark Cuban was curious to know if his followers on X think Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is a better role model for children.
Despite the billionaire’s vocal opposition to Trump over the years, the former president overwhelmingly won the informal poll on social media.
“What personality and character would you like your children to have when they grow up?” Cuban asked his 8.8 million followers, with the options being the Republican and Democratic candidates for 2024.
Of the 804,173 votes cast in the poll published on X on Friday, 68.9 percent say they would prefer their children to look up to Trump and 31.1 percent say Harris.
The poll prompted a number of comments, including from Trending Politics co-owner Collin Rugg, who posted a video of Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy explaining why people don’t need to personally sympathize with the person they’re voting for as president.
Billionaire Shark Tank host Mark Cuban’s poll on X asked followers and users whether they would prefer their children to have Donald Trump or Kamala Harris as a role model.
The poll collected more than 800,000 votes and found that 68.9 percent preferred Trump as their role model, compared to 31.1 percent who said Harris was their preference.
“Some people don’t like President Trump, and I know some people don’t like Vice President Harris. But I want to remind everyone that you’re not choosing a spouse or a life partner here. You’re choosing the president of the United States,” the Republican senator said in the video.
Kennedy concluded: “And that decision – your decision – should be based on the candidates’ policies and their records.”
Several MAGA users repeated right-wing claims that Harris managed to rise to the top ranks of California politics as a reason they wouldn’t want their daughters to look up to the vice president.
Cuban said he was an early supporter of Trump when he launched his 2016 campaign and even said at the time, in 2015, that he would consider being his running mate.
Collin Rugg, co-owner of Trending Politics, posted a video of Louisiana Senator John Kennedy in response to Cuban’s post explaining why people don’t need to personally sympathize with a person they voted for as president.
Many responses targeted Vice President Kamala Harris’ career path and claims that she “slept with someone to get to the top” in California politics.
The Dallas Mavericks minority owner and Shark Tank host spoke with former 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Aug. 7 at X Spaces and explained, “In 2015, I thought, ‘He’s great. He’s not a typical Stepford candidate.’ I thought that was a positive.”
“A lot of it was because I didn’t think I had a chance,” he continued. “I just wanted to mess things up in traditional politics, which I’m not a fan of.”
But Cuban was quick this summer to endorse Harris when she became the presumptive nominee in late July.
Valentina Gomez, who lost her Republican bid for Missouri secretary of state earlier this month, was among those who responded to Cuban’s post on Friday with criticism of Harris’s professional history.
“Mark, you have daughters,” she wrote. “Would you like your daughters sleeping with billionaires to get into positions of power in politics, sports or business? If not, Trump is your answer.”