Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban said Monday he plans to vote for President Biden in November, even if the incumbent is on his deathbed.
“If they were having a last vigil and it was him versus Trump and the last rites were being performed, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban said. bloomberg news Visiting the White House.
Cuban, 65, also revealed that he recently voted for former President Donald Trump’s last opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, in the Texas Republican primary, calling it a “protest vote against Trump.” called.
The “Shark Tank” star doubled down on his support for Biden. X exchange Fellow billionaire Elon Musk mocked Cubans’ seemingly unwavering loyalty to the 81-year-old Biden.
Musk joked that even in a scenario where the president was a “flesh-eating zombie with five seconds to live and if re-elected the Earth would be plunged into 1,000 years of darkness,” Cubans would “still vote for Biden.”
To this, Cuban replied, “My limit is 300 years of darkness.”
Mr. Cuban, co-founder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, was at the White House for a roundtable discussion on prescription drug prices.
His company prides itself on having “no middlemen.” There is no price game. Huge drug savings. ”
Biden has made a provision in the so-called Inflation Control Act that allows Medicare to negotiate prices on some drugs a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Cuban told the outlet that the reforms were a “good start,” adding, “For Medicare patients, the reforms have been amazingly perfect.”
But he insisted at a White House event that pharmacy benefits managers, who work as intermediaries between insurance companies and drug companies, are “everything that’s wrong with this industry,” prompting the Biden administration to step up. encouraged them to do so.
