Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban mounted an absurd defense of Vice President Kamala Harris on CNBC, claiming against all evidence that Harris was a moderate.
This was Cuban’s slavish defense of Harris during the Sept. 5 edition of CNBC’s Squawk Box. When anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin mentioned that previous guests had pegged Harris as a progressive, Cuban objected, calling Harris “pro-business” and claiming that “she’s going center 100%.” The DEI-obsessed billionaire doubled down on this point later in the interview, telling Sorkin, “She’s open-minded, she’s not an ideologue. She wants to do what is best for business.”
The Dallas Mavericks owner proudly provided Sorkin with an example of Harris’s so-called pro-business approach: she would only increase the capital gains tax from 20% to 28%, less than the 33% envisioned by President Joe…
