Mark Cuban Won’t Say Whether He Plans On Running For President In 2020

There’s a lot of chatter about what the Democratic Party should do during the 2020 Presidential election. The party doesn’t really have a clear-cut frontrunner, so a whole bunch of names have been thrown around as potential challengers for Donald Trump.

Because a Republican celebrity won in 2016, some people think the best move for the Democratic Party is for them to nominate their own celebrity. Most notably, Oprah’s name has came up. Another name that some people like is Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who supported Hillary Clinton during the election and has been a vocal critic of Trump.

Nate Silver asked Cuban about the possibility of a run for the White House in 2020. While Cuban didn’t say he would try to become the leader of the free world, he didn’t exactly rule it out definitively.

Cuban’s political stances are kind of all over the place – he said his views are “leaning to libertarian” in 2006, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and said he “hasn’t lived up to what I hoped for” in 2012, and actually said he’d consider being Trump’s vice president in 2015 before their relationship really soured. In fact, at one time, Cuban had this to say about Trump, according to Business Insider.

“I don’t care what his actual positions are,” Cuban wrote. “I don’t care if he says the wrong thing. He says what’s on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.”

Indeed, the outspoken investor said Trump “changed the game.”

“Up until Trump announced his candidacy the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run,” Cuban continued. “You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn’t live perfect lives could never run. Smart people who didn’t want their families put under the media spotlight wouldn’t run. The Donald is changing all of that. He has changed the game and for that he deserves a lot of credit.

Some more Cuban political highlights: he referred to Trump as a “jagoff” during a campaign rally for Clinton in Pittsburgh, he said he’d consider being Clinton’s vice president before she chose Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, he was reportedly contacted by members of the Republican Party who wanted an alternative for Trump last year, and he met with Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, shortly after the election.

So yeah, if Cuban ran for President in 2020, you’d think that he’d want to run as an independent so he is outside of the constrains of a political party. His political views, statements, and actions have been all over the place, so he doesn’t seem to really fit in with one of the two major parties in the United States.

Then again, who knows what’ll happen. In the immortal words of Twitter user @dril …