Ben Shapiro Decimates Mark Cuban Over Kamala’s ‘Hugging’

(VINnews) — Ben Shapiro responded to an X post from billionaire Mark Cuban, after Cuban attempted to belittle one of Shapiro’s posts against Kamala Harris.

Cuban’s rebuttal effort against the master debater quickly backfired.

The drama began when Shapiro, the Orthodox Jewish conservative podcast host, replied to a video on X posted by Kamala Harris, showing her hugging potential voters. Shapiro wrote: “If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help”

If you want your presidential candidate to hug you, please seek psychological help https://t.co/Ob0jfZJ6BS

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 9, 2024

Cuban sarcastically replied to Shapiro: “If you don’t want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help. Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024.”

If you don’t want a presidential candidate capable of hugging, please seek psychological help.

Empathy and kindness are skills that are possessed by great leaders in 2024. https://t.co/JeK02BPnxV

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 9, 2024

However, Cuban completely missed the point. Shapiro never meant to suggest a leader should not be “capable of hugging”. His point was that anyone who gets excited by a silly video of a candidate hugging, as if THAT is what’s really important, needs their head examined.

Shapiro replied to Cuban: “I would imagine nearly all presidential candidates, being humans, are capable of hugging. I’d like one capable of something more, like perhaps not getting 13 American soldiers murdered in Afghanistan or creating 40-year inflation…”

He added, “But I hope she gives you a hug while she taxes your unearned capital gains at 25%.”