
Mark Cuban and Elon Musk offered a study in contrasts as they went before swing state voters Thursday to make the case for their chosen candidates.
Both billionaires walked on stage with their phones prominently in hand but the similarities ended there.
Musk, the Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO and owner of social media platform X, had his phone present to broadcast a concurrent live X space and then proceeded to riff on a wide array of topics — from his case for voting early for Donald Trump to his thoughts on Israel to a recent SpaceX rocket capture.
Cuban, the entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” star, used his phone instead to read prepared remarks where he made a much more careful and focused economic case for Vice President Kamala Harris.
The differences were emblematic of differing approaches to the final weeks seen across the two campaigns overall, as well as the very different roles these two billionaires are set to play in those final pushes.
And there was also a notable contrast in tone.
“Y’all here to have a little fun?” Cuban asked as he took the stage in La Crosse, Wis., before it was Harris’s turn to speak. Cuban then slammed Trump’s economic plans as “basically just gibberish.”
Musk put things in much more stark terms.
“I’m politically active now because I think the future of America and the future of civilization is at stake,” he said during his remarks in Folsom, Pa., just outside of Philadelphia.
This article was originally published in Yahoo Finance