“California is Run Terribly” - Mark Cuban Flip Flops on his Position in the Same Interview

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:26)
Earlier we talked about the polymarket story, the ghost job ghosting in. You heard Ken Paxton talk about the fact that, hey, if you do that in the state of Texas, they're going to come after you. You can't post things like this. Mark Cuban is on Kara Swisher, and she's being interviewed.
And then they talk about two different things. One, they talk about the wealth tax in the state of California. Then they bring up Talarico. And then the audience is like, make up your mind, Mark. Where are you at with this? And Mark actually wanted about Mark. He responded to a lot of the criticism on X, which maybe we'll read some of them. But here's how Mark switched within seconds from California's bad to Talarico's great. Go ahead.

**Mark Cuban** (1:05)
My daughter just graduated from college, and she was asking about living in LA. I'm like, you can't afford it, right? The taxes are insane. But going back just to the billionaire stuff, I think it's ridiculous. I think it's going to cost them more. They don't say, and look, people say, you're a billionaire, right? Well, look, you're already getting people moving. You're getting companies moving. You could be cutting off your nose to slight your face. Everybody wants my money. And fortunately, usually they say, they'll eat me last. James Talarico. Let's go.
Oh, okay. Tell me. Yeah, I'm a big fan. I'm a huge fan.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:35)
Yeah, I know you are. You're a big fan.

**Mark Cuban** (1:37)
I think he's honest.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:38)
That's what he was.

**Mark Cuban** (1:38)
He's trustworthy. He cares.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:41)
What do you say then to those red voters?

**Mark Cuban** (1:43)
Do what's best for the state of Texas. Do what's best for your wallet. Do what's best for you, right? There's nobody in the same thing. My buddy who voted for Trump in 2016, I say the same thing to all these voters. You've been voting for Republicans all these years. What have they done for you?
Tom.

**Adam** (2:00)
Same thing can be said for both.

**Tom** (2:01)
So, yeah, I don't understand the Talarico part. Talarico, there is polling that came out that showed that he was struggling with black voters.
And the DNC, the Texas DNC was saying, we think that this election has got to hinge to the over index of the black voters. Because Hispanics are becoming increasingly conservative.
Not a majority conservative, but increasingly conservative. We've seen it in Texas. And so Talarico comes out a week ago. What does Talarico say? Well, I think the problem with the whole Carmelo Anthony case was that there wasn't enough black jurors. Wait a minute. At the same time, we find out that text messages came out that showed that it was actually a premeditated murder.
Absolute, unequivocal text messages, and they were worried about civil unrest. And so they didn't go after the death penalty, and they just denied the guy's request. A liberal judge denied the guy's request for a new trial. So Talarico is out here talking about this, trying to pander to the black vote using a horrible premise. Mark Cuban is smart. How can he not see that and see the pandering that's going on? And why does he believe that what Talarico wants to bring is actually economically good for the state of Texas? That confused me about Mark. The things that he's doing on drugs and his own company, the startup company on drug prices, which I applaud and I think are great. And I love the fact that he wouldn't let himself be manipulated all those years as an MBA owner. There's so many things I like about Mark, but this take, this angle on the back side of Talarico confused me and I think it's wrong headed.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:41)
Can you pull up the clip? Can you pull up the tweet with him responding back? Not this one. This is when he says there's racism and all this stuff. Not Talarico. The one I just texted you about, the tweet and him responding. I just literally send you the tweet, guys.

**Tom** (3:52)
Sexism in America.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:53)