Mark Cuban Was on List of "Anti-Trump" Presidential Candidate

The “Anti-Trump” camp in the Republican Party sounded out candidates for a third-party presidential run. Among them was Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

Cuban thought he could take Donald Trump but “there isn’t enough time” to mount a third-party candidacy.

"Cuban, a cast member on “Shark Tank,” the ABC reality series in which entrepreneurs pitch investors about their business ideas, said his pursuers — he declined to name them — have told him that his “bluster and volume, combined with substance and the ability to connect with voters on a more personal basis,” could make him a winning candidate. “He could come after me all he wanted, and he knows I would put him in his place,” Cuban said of Trump. “All that said, again, I don’t see it happening. There isn’t enough time.”"

The debates, featuring two television stars, would have been must-see TV. Though, unless you’re an incommunicado beltway political columnist, it’s hard to read the Bloomberg theory into this election that America is just waiting for a moderate technocrat to get into the race.