Billionaire Kamala Harris’ supporter Mark Cuban admitted defeat and congratulated Donald Trump for “winning the election fairly.”
The election has not yet been formally called for Trump, but any path to victory for Harris is rapidly narrowing as swing states continue to be called red. Fox News has already announced that Trump is the winner.
North Carolina and Georgia have been voted in Trump’s favor, and he is ahead in critical states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.
Harris’ team warned fans that she will not address the public tonight, while Trump spoke to the crowd at his watch party in Florida and declared victory.
For some of Harris’ biggest supporters, the writing is on the wall.
“Congratulations @realDonaldTrump,” Shark Tank star Cuban wrote on X.
You won fairly. Congratulations to @elonmusk too.”
Billionaire Kamala Harris supporter Mark Cuban admitted defeat and congratulated Donald Trump for “winning the election fairly and equitably.”
Cuban supported Trump during his successful 2016 White House bid, but ‘overcame him’
Cuban’s decision to also congratulate Musk comes after the billionaire invested a whopping $119 million in his pro-Trump political action committee, America PAC, to help secure Trump’s return to the White House.
Musk revealed that he supported Trump after he survived an assassination attempt in July, and has since been one of the Republican candidate’s most outspoken supporters and generous donors.
Cuban sparked a furor last week when he appeared on The View and criticized Trump’s inner circle.
He told the panel, which included Whoopi Goldberg: ‘Donald Trump, you never see him surrounded by strong, intelligent women, ever. It’s that simple.’
‘It’s that simple. They seem intimidating to you. He doesn’t like to be challenged,’ Cuban added.
Musk and Trump spent Tuesday night together as the results began to come in after forming a ‘bromance’ during the campaign.
The Trump campaign immediately seized on the comments as evidence to support its claim that Democrats, including Kamala Harris, despise voters who support the former president.
Trump’s national press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the comments were “extremely insulting to the thousands of women who work for President Trump and the tens of millions of women who proudly vote for him.”
Cuban later apologized and said he “didn’t say it exactly the way I thought.”
The 66-year-old Dallas-based investor, who made his wealth in computer software, supported Trump during his successful run for the White House in 2016, but “overcame him.”
Cuban said that “every time you tried to have a conversation about specifics” with Trump “it never worked.”
But both Trump and Musk supporters appreciated his “polite” – and early – concession in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
“Mature response,” said Trump Can Isabella DeLuca.
‘You said it like a true gentleman, Mark. We have to hope they make good decisions for the United States,” said another.
Elon Musk will join Donald Trump at his election night party at Mar-a-Lago, continuing his aggressive campaign for the Republican candidate.
Musk announced his support for the former president earlier this year after the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, despite saying in 2022 that ‘it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset.’
Musk and Trump spent Tuesday night together as the results began to come in after forming a “bromance” during the campaign.
Speaking on a Spaces livestream, the world’s richest man said: “I’ll be there with President Trump, JD and a bunch of other cool people.” They have a great sense of humour.’
Musk promised last month to donate $1 million a day until Election Day to people in swing states.
According to the America PAC website, 16 people, including four in Pennsylvania, have received $1 million awards. The winners were reportedly selected at random from those who signed a petition pledging support for free speech and the right to bear arms.
The offer was limited to voters registered in one of seven states likely to decide the outcome of the Nov. 5 election: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Justice Department warned Musk and his US PAC last month that the giveaway could violate federal law, which prohibits paying people to register to vote.