The poll garnered significant interest, with Trump winning 68.9 per cent of the votes compared to Harris’s 31.1 per cent, out of a total of 804,173 votes.
Several prominent political commentators and influencers responded to the poll. Valentina Gomez, a former Republican candidate for Missouri Secretary of State, joined numerous right-wing voices criticising Harris’ professional history.
Mark Cuban, who has a long history of opposing Trump, once supported the former president. Cuban initially backed Trump during his first presidential campaign in 2015 and even expressed interest in being Trump’s running mate in 2016.
“In 2015, I was like, ‘He’s great. He’s not a typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive,” Cuban said in an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy on X on August 7. “A big part of that is I didn’t think he had a chance. I just wanted to kind of screw things up in traditional politics, which I’m not a fan of.”
In July 2015, Cuban told Business Insider, “I don’t care what his actual positions are. I don’t care if he says the wrong thing. He says what’s on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.”
Over time, Cuban’s stance on Trump changed significantly. Earlier in the year, when Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban stated his strong preference for Biden over Trump, even under extreme circumstances.
“If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban told Bloomberg News in March.
Cuban has expressed his support for Harris since she became the presumptive nominee. He has defended her proposed economic agenda in multiple posts on X and accused Trump of copying her policy stances.
“And now he is copying @KamalaHQ policies. What’s going on here?” Cuban wrote on X on August 24.
Source : Times of India
