Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban admitted this week that Kamala Harris’s campaign team deliberately kept her away from unscripted podcast appearances during the 2024 election cycle — because they didn’t trust her not to fumble.
Cuban, who served as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris ticket, revealed during an episode of “Pod Save America” that despite his push for Harris to engage with male-dominated shows like Flagrant and Theo Von, her handlers refused.
“They were afraid,” Cuban said. “They didn’t trust her.”
Asked if that fear was rooted in concerns she would make mistakes, Cuban confirmed: “Yeah, and because they had her so wrapped — so wound tight — like if the cursing Kamala would have gone on the ‘bro-casts,’ she would have killed it.”
Cuban said while he and other surrogates were allowed to speak freely on those platforms, Harris was kept on a short leash by advisers who micromanaged every public appearance. He noted that her rare appearance on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe allowed a glimpse of her personality to shine, but others — like her Call Her Daddy interview — were so tightly scripted that they felt inauthentic.
“They over-orchestrated everything,” Cuban added, implying the campaign’s overcautious strategy backfired.
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Harris’s team has long struggled with public perception and message discipline — even among Democrats. Cuban’s comments confirm what many insiders have suggested for years: the campaign didn’t trust Kamala Harris to handle unscripted moments on her own.