“You know, parties vote lopsidedly, right? They all vote the same even though they represent districts or states that are spread across the country. That’s just crazy,” Cuban told reporter Olivia Nuzzi in an interview with Bloomberg’s Working Capital.
The interview, recorded in March, was released on Thursday in which Cuban expressed his concerns about the US political system and what he sees as the divisions inherent in it.
“We choose our candidates through a primary system where a large percentage of voters in the primaries lean toward the extremes, whether right or left,” Cuban said.
“In order to avoid being attacked in the primaries, you need candidates who tend toward these extremes. And these are also the people who give these people money. That’s not how you choose candidates. That’s just wrong.”
This situation, Cuban said, forced him to look for ways to eliminate both the Republican and Democratic parties.
“If I could wave a magic wand, I would get rid of both parties, right?” Cuban told Nuzzi.
“I actually talked to a couple of lawyers, and I had never talked about this before. ‘Like, is there any way we could bring antitrust charges against both parties?'” Cuban added.
Cuban says he is holding a public conference call asking people with legitimate complaints about the parties to contact him so they can “sue them for antitrust violations and try to take them down.”
When asked about his open appeal on Thursday, Cuban told Business Insider that no one has contacted him yet.
“If you can find someone who can bring a legitimate antitrust case against the major parties, I’m interested,” he added.
Cuban has often spoken out on political issues. Although he has not run for public office himself, he has floated the idea of an independent candidacy on several occasions.
In 2015, Cuban also said he was willing to run as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate. But Cuban’s views on Trump soon changed.
“If he lasts four years, I’ll be there to kick his ass,” Cuban said in 2017, the year Trump took office.
Cuban is now supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Cuban initially supported President Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race.
“Given the system we currently have, I will vote for Harris,” Cuban told BI on Thursday.
When Harris introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, Cuban said the candidates on her ticket, Harris and Walz, could be attractive to voters because of their non-Ivy League academic backgrounds.
“People are tired of the ideologies and hate of both parties. They want to vote for normal people they can identify with,” Cuban wrote in an August 6 X-post.
