According to billionaire Mark Cuban, a supporter of Kamala Harris, in these last weeks of campaigning the vice president’s real opponent doesn’t seem to be Donald Trump, but Elon Musk.
The richest man in the world, who decided to join the former President’s cause, has been increasingly drawing the spotlight on himself in recent times, promoting a series of initiatives to further the rise of the MAGA leader.
“The crazy thing is, it’s the Harris campaign versus Elon, not even versus Trump,” Cuban, former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, told CNBC’s Squawk Box. The multibillionaire also lashed out at the Tesla and SpaceX CEO for his promise to give away $1 million a day to the winners of a lottery reserved for voters in swing states, if they sign an America PAC petition. Cuban called the idea a “desperate” move. However, Cuban stated that if Harris wins, she could “100 percent” mend her relationship with Musk.
In recent times, the two billionaires, major players in this closing phase of the campaign, have repeatedly poked at each other. After Musk mocked Cuban’s appearance on several occasions, Cuba lashed back on X “You can’t stop thinking about me @elonmusk Can you? It’s ok. I understand. If I supported a candidate that was so incompetent I had to take over and fund their ground game, I would be looking for a distraction too”.
Speaking about his rival’s latest idea and America PAC, the 66-year-old explained that the lottery idea “is not a bad idea,” but at the same time “it could easily backfire”.
Meanwhile, the 53-year-old from Pretoria has become the subject of a new investigation by CBS. Analyzing Musk’s X profile, the network found that 55 percent of his posts contain misleading or false statements. Since January of this year, he used the social media platform he owns to accumulate nearly 3.3 billion views, fueling doubts about election security issues and becoming one of the most influential voices during the 2024 election campaign.
Further analysis of these posts showed that 40 of the accounts to which Musk responded or re-posted were profiles that researchers identified as promoting fake news about alleged voter fraud. Over the course of the year, Musk himself published or shared 661 such posts, which averaged 9.3 million views.
Experts, of course, fear that such high public involvement, in posts amplifying conspiracies about election fraud, could set the stage for possible post-November 5 chaos.
