Mark Cuban plans to vote for President Biden in November even if the incumbent is on his deathbed, the billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks minority owner said Monday.
“If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban told Bloomberg News during a visit to the White House.
Cuban, 65, further revealed that he recently cast his ballot in the Texas Republican primary for former President Donald Trump’s last remaining opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, calling it a “protest vote against Trump.”
The “Shark Tank” star doubled-down on his endorsement of Biden in an X exchange with fellow billionaire Elon Musk, who ridiculed Cuban’s seemingly unwavering loyalty to the 81-year-old Biden.
Musk joked that Cuban would “still vote for” Biden even in a scenario in which the president was “a flesh-eating zombie with 5 seconds to live where, upon being re-elected, Earth would plunge into a 1000 years of darkness.”
To which Cuban responded, “my limit is 300 years of darkness.”
Cuban, the co-founder of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, was at the White House for a roundtable on prescription drug prices.
His company prides itself on having “no middleman. No price games. Huge drug savings.”
Biden has made provisions in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that allow Medicare to negotiate some drug prices a centerpiece of his re-election campaign.
Cuban told the outlet that the reforms were a “good start,” adding that “for Medicare patients, they’ve been off-the-charts amazing, perfect.”
However, he encouraged the Biden administration to go further, arguing at the White House event that pharmacy benefit managers, which work as middlemen between insurers and drugmakers, “are everything that is wrong with this industry.”
