Mark Cuban congratulates Trump – and Elon Musk – on winning the White House before the race is called

• Mark Cuban, a key Kamala Harris surrogate, congratulated Donald Trump before the race was called.

• At the time, Trump was on the verge of taking Pennsylvania, which was seen as a must-win for Harris.

• Cuban also congratulated Elon Musk — a major Trump donor and staunch GOP supporter in this election.

Vote counting was still underway early Wednesday, but Mark Cubana key campaign surrogate for vice president Kamala Harrishas called the race for his opponent, former president Donald Trump.

“You won fair and square,” Cuban wrote on X on Wednesday morning. “Congratulations to @elonmusk too. #Godspeed.”

Cuban initially supported President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. He shifted his support to Harris after she became the Democratic nominee.

The “Shark Tank” star campaigned heavily for Harris, performing at rallies in battleground states including Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Cuban wasn’t the only one who predicted Trump would return to the White House.

In an X post on Wednesday, Elon Muskone of Trump’s most vocal supporters, said the former president had been given a “crystal clear mandate for change.”

At the time of Cuban’s post, US news outlets had not called the overall race, but Trump was clearly favored to take the White House with victories in two key battleground states and leads in others.

Cedric Richmond, cochair of the Harris-Walz campaign, said at about 1 a.m. ET that Harris would not address her supporters at Howard University, where her campaign held a vigil, until later Wednesday morning.

“We still have votes to count,” he said. “We still have states that haven’t been called yet. We’re going to continue overnight to fight to make sure every vote is counted, that every vote has been counted.”

Representatives for Cuban and the Harris campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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