Mark Cuban wishes he could wave a magic wand and get away with both sides

“The way we vote for our candidates is through a primary system where, you know, a higher percentage of primary voters lean toward the extremes, whether it’s right or left,” Cuban said.

“And that’s how you have to have candidates, so you don’t get to the mayor’s office, who lean towards those extremes. And these are also the people who give money to those people. That’s not how candidates are chosen. It’s simply wrong.”

That situation, Cuban said, led him to find ways to shut down both the Republican and Democratic parties.

“If I could wave my magic wand, I’d get rid of the two sides, right?” Cuban told Nuzzi.

“I actually went and talked to a couple of lawyers, and I hadn’t talked about it before, ‘Is there any way to file any kind of antitrust action against both parties?'” Cuban added.

Cuban says he’s keeping an open call and is asking people with legitimate complaints about the parties to contact him so he can “sue them for antitrust and just try to take them down.”

Asked about his open call on Thursday, Cuban told Business Insider that no one had contacted him yet.

“If you find somebody with a legitimate antitrust case against the big parties. I’m interested,” he added.

Cuban has often weighed in on political issues. He stopped short of running for public office, but has repeatedly floated the idea of ​​an independent bid.

In 2015, Cuban also said he was open to serving as Donald Trump’s running mate. But Cuban’s views on Trump soon changed.

“If he lasts four years, I’ll be there to kick his ass,” Cuban said in 2017, the year Trump took office.

Cuban is now endorsing the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. Cuban initially endorsed President Joe Biden before the president dropped out of the race.

“Given that it’s the system we have now. I’m going to vote with Harris,” Cuban told BI on Thursday.

When Harris introduced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as a running mate, Cuban said the Harris-Walz ticket could be a draw for voters because of their non-Ivy League academic backgrounds.

“People are tired of the ideologies and hatred of both parties. They want to vote for normal people they can relate to,” Cuban wrote in an X post on Aug. 6.