Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been speaking about a potential presidential bid and even though he "hasn't closed the door" on the idea, his wife has. "Shark Tank" co-star Barbara Corcoran revealed to real estate association NYRAC that Cuban's wife will "absolutely not" let him run for president.
"I'll tell you who I do believe, [Cuban's] wife [Tiffany Stewart]," Corcoran said, as cited by Fox News on Friday. "When I went to his 60th birthday about six months ago in Dallas, the person I most wanted to see was Mark's wife and I said to her, 'Are you going to let Mark run for president?' And she said, 'Absolutely not!' And I believe her. And that's what I think the real answer is."
Cuban has said on several occasions that he is considering a presidential run even though the deadline to declare as an independent candidate draws closer.
"I never would have considered it prior to a month ago, but now things are changing rapidly and dramatically," the billionaire entrepreneur told Fox News in an interview last month. "I'm not saying no, but it's not something that I'm actively pursuing. I'm just keeping the door open."
He added: "You just never know. This is not something we've seen before, this is obviously a unique set of circumstances … you just don't know what could happen between now and November."
In an interview with Axios, Cuban said he will "keep an open mind" and earlier this week he said on Hill.TV that he has not ruled the option out.
"[The door] was closed, but we have such crazy times and I've been getting so many requests that I at least want to keep the door open, but it's still highly unlikely," he said, reports Fox News. "Right now we have nobody in the federal government that we can trust, yet we're looking … for somebody who we can effectively trust with our lives.
"It's not something I'm going to rush into, but it's not something I've closed the door on."
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