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(NewsNation) — Mark Cuban, a large backer of Vice President Kamala Harris, sparred with Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO and noted Donald Trump protagonist Dana White on NewsNation's preelection municipality hall Wednesday.
The 2 businessman bickered implicit their candidates' interaction connected the economy and America's existent inflation rate, with White saying Harris has "done nothing" during her tenure and Cuban advocating for Harris' aboriginal plans.
Cuban said helium “can’t contradict that there’s inflation,” but determination are much nuanced concerns astatine hand, including the outgo of wellness care. Referencing Trump’s “concept of a plan” astir replacing Medicare, Cuban pointed to Harris’ proposed aesculapian changes.
“Under Trump … the ostentation complaint volition lone proceed astatine the aforesaid complaint oregon spell up, which means you’re going to support connected going backwards if anybody successful your household gets sick astatine all,” Cuban said.
Mark Cuban: Harris inherited economical problems
The erstwhile "Shark Tank" capitalist besides pointed retired that the Biden-Harris medication inherited their economical problems from Trump.
"I'll archer you precisely erstwhile the precise archetypal kernel of ostentation was set, and that was successful April of 2020. It was close astatine the aboriginal days of the pandemic," Cuban said, going connected to explicate that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump chose "his oil institution cronies" implicit keeping state prices low.
"You tin instrumentality each you privation and blasted it connected the Biden administration, but it started with Donald Trump," Cuban said, aboriginal admonishing the businessman's tariffs and their interaction connected the Obama system helium inherited.
2020 saw the lowest ostentation complaint successful years astatine 1.4%, followed by a monolithic spike successful 2021, erstwhile rates deed 7%. Inflation peaked astatine a four-decade precocious of 9% successful the summertime of 2022, nether Biden and Harris.
It has since dwindled backmost down to 2.4% successful 2024, according to US Inflation Calculator.
Dana White: Trump 'proven' connected beardown economy
White pushed the blasted backmost to Biden, honing successful connected what helium sees arsenic Harris' pitfalls compared to the GOP nominee.
"Trump has already proven helium tin physique a beardown economy, helium tin unafraid the borders, and helium is idiosyncratic that allies and adversaries respect. Those are each precise important things. What has she proven?" White asked.
During his presidency, national indebtedness held by the nationalist roseate from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion, influenced by Trump’s taxation cuts, peculiarly his slashes to the firm taxation rate, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck project.
While White didn't straight code the system oregon Trump's interaction connected inflation, helium doubled down connected his disapproval of Harris, saying: "She is the sitting vice president of the United States close now. She's proven nothing. She's done nothing. I deliberation she's successful implicit her head. She knows she's successful implicit her head."
"Nobody voted her there. Nobody voted Kamala Harris. If she went up against different Democrats, she would not beryllium successful the presumption she's successful close now," White added.
