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Six million electric cars (battery electric and plug-in hybrid) are likely to be shipped globally in 2022, up from 4 million in 2021, a <keyword id="6371981" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gartner" source="Orion">Gartner</keyword> report showed on Thursday. The number of global public EV chargers will rise to 2.1 million units in 2022, up from 1.6 million units in 2021. The market research firm forecasts that electric cars will represent 95 per cent of total EV shipments in 2022 and the remainder will be split between buses, vans and heavy trucks. For the full year 2021, Tesla alone delivered 936,172 vehicles, just short of the promised 1 million vehicles but still an increase of 87 per cent over the previous year. At 'COP26' in November 2021, the <keyword id="12569371" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zero-emission-vehicle-transition-council" source="Orion">Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council</keyword> agreed that vehicle manufacturers will commit to selling only zero emission vehicles by 2040, and earlier in leading markets, putting pressure on the automotive sector to prepare for the decarbonization in transportation. "EVs are an important powertrain technology to help reduce CO2 emissions from the transportation sector," said <keyword id="13040648" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="jonathan-davenport" source="Orion">Jonathan Davenport</keyword>, research director at Gartner. "The ongoing shortage of chips will impact the production of EVs in 2022, and while shipments of vans and trucks are currently small, their shipments will grow rapidly as commercial owners see the financial and environmental benefit of electrifying their fleets," Davenport added. With China imposing a mandate on automakers requiring that EVs make up 40 per cent of all sales by 2030 and automakers establishing new factories for manufacturing electric cars, Greater China will account for 46 per cent of global EV shipments in 2022. Western Europe is on pace to ship 1.9 million units in 2022, ranking No 2 in EV shipments. North America is expected to be the third highest region in shipments at 855.3 thousand EVs in 2022. "The EU's plans to cut CO2 emissions from cars by 55 per cent and vans by 50 per cent by 2030 is a catalyst to the uptake of EVs in Europe," said Davenport. To foster the transition to EVs, automotive manufacturers will have to address several factors such as lowering the price of EVs and batteries, recycling EV batteries and offering a wider selection of vehicle models. "Additionally, a major issue that must be addressed is lack of fast-charging availability for home and public charging," said Davenport. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/cost-of-owning-and-running-an-electric-scooter-vs-a-petrol-scooter/articleshow/89119184.cms">Here’s how much buying and owning an electric scooter costs in India versus a petrol scooter</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/tesla-india-prospects-get-a-boost-as-states-compete-with-each-other-to-invite-elon-musk-to-their-backyard/articleshow/88890951.cms">Tesla India prospects get a boost as states compete with each other to invite Elon Musk to their backyard</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/tesla-posts-record-profit-but-says-the-chip-shortage-means-it-wont-produce-any-new-models-in-2022/articleshow/89148649.cms">Tesla posts record profit, but says the chip shortage means it won't produce any new models in 2022</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-MTc9C_n58&amp;feature=iv&amp;src_vid=bymnxV_WJHA&amp;annotation_id=annotation_618274501">YouTube</a>Andy Davenport, CEO of Philidor</div></div></div>Lawyers representing Andy Davenport and Gary Tanner, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/criminal-probe-into-valeants-philidor-could-lead-to-charges-soon-2016-11">the two executives arrested Thursday and charged with </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/criminal-probe-into-valeants-philidor-could-lead-to-charges-soon-2016-11">"engaging in a multimillion-dollar fraud and kickback scheme,"</a> said the duo will prove their innocence. The lawyer representing Andy Davenport - the CEO of Philidor, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-valeant-documents-show-philidor-strategy-2016-11">secret pharmacy</a> whose discovery led to a crisis at Valeant Pharmaceuticals - said Thursday that his client will "vigorously defend himself."And the lawyer representing Gary Tanner, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-tanner-former-valeant-employee-criminal-charges-2016-11">a former Valeant executive who went on to work for Philidor</a>, said that Tanner had been "charged with a crime for doing his job."Here is the statement from Davenport's lawyer, Jonathan Rosen, at the <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> firm Polsinelli:"Andy Davenport worked with full transparency and, along with a broad Valeant team, built a best in class pharmacy. Mr. Davenport was committed to patient service and worked around the clock to ensure that patients timely received those medications prescribed by their doctors. Philidor also benefited Valeant, which is why Valeant and its highly sophisticated and active management team sought to buy it.When Philidor launched as a small pharmacy, Andy Davenport worked tirelessly, folding shipping boxes at night, to ensure that Philidor delivered on its promise to deliver patient medications on time. Mr. Davenport earned his success with integrity and hard work and will vigorously defend himself and his good name."Howard Shapiro at WilmerHale, who is representing Tanner, said: "It was Gary Tanner's job at Valeant to grow and promote Philidor. He performed that job exceptionally well, greatly benefiting Valeant's shareholders, and regularly communicated to his superiors what he was doing. Today he has been charged with a crime for doing his job. We will demonstrate his innocence at trial."US prosecutors are separately <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/valeant-ex-ceo-ex-cfo-said-to-be-a-focus-of-u-s-criminal-probe">investigating former Valeant CEO Michael Pearson and CFO Howard Schiller,</a> Bloomberg News has reported.In a press release on Thursday, Valeant said: "The company, former CEO, former CFO, and current executives have not been charged at this time."The relationship between Valeant and Philidor <a href="http://sirf-online.org/2015/10/19/hidden-in-plain-sight-valeants-big-crazy-sort-of-secret-story/">was exposed</a> by the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation in October of last year.Though Valeant initially tried to downplay the role of Philidor, the company had a detailed sales plan dubbed the "Philidor strategy," and company documents show that Valeant <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-valeant-documents-show-philidor-strategy-2016-11">used the pharmacy to increase the volume of shipments for two of its drugs</a>, Solodyn and Jublia. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/buy-rent-financial-suicide-james-altucher-2016-10">JAMES ALTUCHER: This is why owning a home is financial suicide</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="0yNjBzeDo1bPwt1rmBJ8yS7MxZE2di07" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Artist's impression of StarTram Generation 2 launch system.An artist's conception of the StarTram launch system.</div></div></div><ul><li>Spinlaunch has raised $40 million to develop a catapult to launch small and medium-sized payloads into orbit.</li><li>The company wants to use kinetic energy, sourced from ground-based electricity, for its launch system.</li><li>It's an idea that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> entertained during the early days of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/blue-origin">Blue Origin</a>, though he had dismissed it as having "practical problems." </li></ul>A Silicon Valley startup wants to catapult rockets into space - and it's raised $40 million to do it.Heavyweight investors like GV (Google's venture fund), Airbus Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins all contributed to Spinlaunch's $35 million series A- announced last week - bringing the total amount the startup has raised to $40 million.But <a href="https://newatlas.com/startram-maglev-to-leo/21700/">the idea </a>at the center of the company's value proposition - using kinetic energy to whip small satellites and rockets into orbit - is one that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/jeff-bezos">Jeff Bezos</a>, the centi-billionaire Amazon CEO and founder of private space company <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/blue-origin">Blue Origin</a>, said had "all sorts of practical problems."The Bezos criticism comes from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Space-Barons-Bezos-Colonize-Cosmos/dp/1610398297">"Space Barons,"</a> a new book from Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport. The book chronicles the early days of the rivalry between Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Bezos in the race to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/private-space-station-hotels-robert-bigelow-2018-2">privatize spaceflight</a>."It's the kind of thing you could dispose of as a credible idea in a few hours of analysis," Bezos said, according to Davenport. "So far as we know, nobody had ever considered that."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">SpinlaunchSpinlaunch's website.</div></div></div>Spinlaunch said it hopes to achieve its first launch in just four years, and that it's in talks with four states to develop launch sites. Spinlaunch's technology is based on the law of conservation of momentum. Similar to cracking a whip, Spinlaunch plans to use kinetic energy to get a small rocket spinning in a circle up to 5,000 miles per hour, where it will then be flung into orbit.It'll use regular old electricity, rather than rocket fuel, to power the catapult and shoot a payload to hypersonic speeds - that is, five times the speed of sound. However, some payloads may need a supplemental rocket motor to get into space, according to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/spinlaunch-2/">TechCrunch</a>. Either way, it could be a far cheaper way to efficiently deliver stuff to space."SpinLaunch is reimagining space launch by revisiting fundamental physics and leveraging proven industrial technologies to create a system that accelerates the launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using ground-based electricity," the company's CEO, Jonathan Yaney said in a statement. "Applying the initial performance boost from a terrestrial-based launch platform enables us to lower the cost by orders of magnitude and launch many times per day."Investors are bullish on the idea."SpinLaunch has the potential to be highly disruptive for launching small and medium-sized payloads, and is uniquely positioned against traditional rocket-based methods for space launch," GV Partner Shaun Maguire said in a statement.Wen Hsieh, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, said in a statement that he was most intrigued by Spinlaunch's ability to be "powered by renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, thereby eliminating the use of toxic and dangerous rocket fuels."Spinlaunch's system is part of a push to develop innovative technology to deliver payloads to space. Another proposal, called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram">StarTram</a>, is a maglev launch system that uses frictionless magnets to launch rockets off of a raised platform.While information about Spinlaunch is hard to come by - their <a href="http://spinlaunch.com/">website</a> has scant details, and we don't yet know what the catapult will look like - it's a potentially exciting frontier in the private space race. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/world-running-out-sand-resources-concrete-2018-6">The world is running out of sand - and there's a black market for it now</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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Associated PressDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a town hall meeting Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)<ul class="summary-list"><li>On February 3, Iowa Democrats will the first in the country to express their choice for the Democratic presidential nominee.</li><li>While Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-bernie-sanders-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Bernie Sanders</a> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">holds a narrow lead over the rest of the field</a> in Iowa, most recent polls of the state show the leading four candidates bunched closely together.</li><li>Since 1972, Iowa has historically played an important role in narrowing the size of the field and determining which candidates are viable going forward.</li><li>But with an unusually large Democratic presidential field, Iowa may be less relevant this year than ever.</li><li>Candidates are spending more time in other states, and have even criticized Iowa for being unrepresentative of the party. </li><li>Here's what you need to know about the difference between primaries and caucuses, how the Iowa caucus works, and why it may be less relevant this year than ever before. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>On February 3, Iowa Democrats will gather across the state to express their choice for the Democratic presidential nominee and allocate delegates to the Democratic National Convention in July. For Democratic voters and activists, the Iowa caucuses represent the moment they begin possibly removing President Donald Trump from office, something they've been waiting to do since the day after his election in 2016. While Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-bernie-sanders-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Bernie Sanders</a> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/ia/iowa_democratic_presidential_caucus-6731.html">holds a narrow lead over the rest of the field</a> in Iowa, most recent polls of the state show the leading four candidates - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-joe-biden-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Joe Biden,</a> Sanders, Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-elizabeth-warren-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Elizabeth Warren</a>, and former Mayor <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-pete-buttigieg-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Pete Buttigieg</a> -bunched closely together, meaning the caucuses are still largely up for grabs. The number of candidates polling in double-digits means that on caucus day, it's very likely that no one candidate will immediately hold a clear lead in delegates - and the proceedings could go late into the night. <h2>Why are the Iowa caucuses so important? </h2>Since 1972, Iowa has been a huge deal simply by virtue of being first in the Democratic nomination process and setting the tone for the rest of the process.As <a href="https://data.desmoinesregister.com/iowa-caucus/history/">the Des Moines Register notes</a>, Iowans pride themselves on being exceedingly well-informed and engaged, and take their role in shaping the race very seriously.While the state may not be a make-or-break contest, it has historically played an important role in narrowing the size of the field and determining which candidates are viable going forward. An old saying posits that there are only three ways out of Iowa: coming in first, second, or third place. For some candidates, like President Barack Obama in 2008, either outright winning or being perceived as the Iowa winner transformed them from a longshot contender to a frontrunner.Obama <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/us/politics/obama-iowa-caucus-2008.html">was certainly a formidable contender going into Iowa</a>, proving that he could build a grassroots operation capable of beating former Senator Hillary Clinton and her significant establishment backing.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-17/iowa-caucuses-you-don-t-have-to-win-to-be-the-winner-k5i4po5h">In 1976 when Jimmy Carter was running for president</a>, a plurality of caucusgoers was technically "uncommitted." But since he was the highest-placing candidate and vastly outperformed expectations, the media narrative framed him as the winner and he went on to secure the nomination.Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBarack Obama holds his youngest daughter Sasha with his wife Michelle and daughter Malia while thanking supporters for his victory in the Iowa caucus January 3, 2008 in Des Moines, Iow<h2>How are caucuses different from primaries? </h2>Of the first four nominating contests, Iowa and Nevada hold caucuses run by their respective state Democratic parties, while New Hampshire and South Carolina hold primaries run by the state government agencies.In traditional primaries, voters go into a voting booth and cast a ballot expressing their choice for the Democratic nominee. Delegates are then allocated proportionally based on the results of that vote. Caucuses, however, are much more communal and collaborative. Every caucus-goer is assigned to a caucus location, like a high school gym, for example, in their voting precinct where they gather in groups, deliberate, and use preference cards to publicly express their choice for the Democratic nominee instead of casting a secret ballot.The <a href="https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/how-do-you-caucus-with-a-baby-20200128">caucus model has been criticized</a>, however, for being inaccessible to people with disabilities, elderly Iowans, people who don't work a typical nine-to-five schedule, and parents of young children. As Iowa-based writer Lyz Lenz recently reported, women, in particular, are more likely to be the primary caregiver in their household and <a href="https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/how-do-you-caucus-with-a-baby-20200128">are often excluded from caucusing altogether. </a>In an effort to make caucuses more inclusive for those who can't feasibly be in the same place caucusing for hours on end, the DNC has helped both Iowa and Nevada adopt reforms to make it easier to participate. Iowa will hold multiple satellite caucuses to accommodate people who cannot physically attend caucuses or who are living abroad, and Nevada will hold four days of early voting, in addition to establishing caucus sites at the Las Vegas strip for casino workers who work night shifts.Tom Brenner/Getty ImagesThe top page of a Caucus Captan's guide is seen beside a photo of Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg on January 28, 2020 in Mason City, Iowa.<h2>How do the Iowa caucuses work? </h2>There are some unique features of the Iowa caucus that are important to understand to make sense of the process.Unlike a regular winner-take-all election in which the person who breaks 50% of the vote wins the whole thing, candidates earn delegates proportionally based on their vote share.And while 27 out of 41 of Iowa's pledged delegates are allocated proportionally at the congressional district level, there is a minimum threshold in Iowa and most other states contenders must attain to earn delegates.In Iowa and most other early primary states, a candidate must break 15% of the vote in a given congressional district to win any delegates from that district at all. Candidates must also clear 15% of the vote at the state level to earn any of Iowa's five Party Leader and Elected Official, or PLEO, delegates and its nine at-large delegates, all of which are allocated based on the state popular vote. This means its possible for candidates to win district-level but not PLEO or at-large delegates. (Iowa also gets eight automatic delegates or "superdelegates" who are not immediately allocated to a candidate). But there's a catch: Every Iowa precinct with a caucus holds not one but two rounds of preference expression, or alignments, meaning that caucusgoers' <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/iowa-caucuses-second-choice-candidates.html">second choices are more important,</a> and there will be lots of strategizing behind who they choose to back. If a caucusgoer's first-choice candidate doesn't break the delegate threshold on the first alignment, they can either switch their preference to a candidate who is viable after the first round in their precinct, try to combine forces with other caucusgoers to make their original first-choice candidate viable on the second alignment, or categorize themselves as an uncommitted caucusgoer.A caucusgoer whose first-choice is viable after the first alignment cannot, however, is locked into their preference and cannot change their vote, meaning candidates can only gain and not lose votes in the second alignment.On caucus night, the Iowa Democratic Party will report<a href="https://apnews.com/edc86daef497ec66e87f86ffe5d5b1e4"> three separate sets of results</a> that may show different winners:<ul><li>The raw vote counts from the first alignment, or preference expression. </li><li>The vote count from the second alignment, which determines what candidates pass the viability threshold to receive delegates in each precinct and congressional district. </li><li>Each candidate's vote share from the second alignment are converted into what are called "state delegate equivalents," or the estimated number of delegates each candidate is allocated from the congressional district and statewide results of the caucuses.</li></ul>Because the Democratic nomination is ultimately decided by who wins the most delegates and not the most votes, major election forecasters including <a href="https://apnews.com/edc86daef497ec66e87f86ffe5d5b1e4">the Associated Press</a> and Decision Desk HQ (who Insider is partnering with for caucus night) will call the results based on the leader in state delegate equivalents. This means that the candidate who receives the most votes may not necessarily win the most delegates, making the actual "winner" up to some level of inference.As Jonathan Bernstein <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-17/iowa-caucuses-you-don-t-have-to-win-to-be-the-winner-k5i4po5h">recently noted in Bloomberg opinion</a>: "'Winning' in Iowa, and in the New Hampshire primary a week afterward, has always been a combination of raw results, candidate spin and media interpretation." <h2>Win McNamee/Getty ImagesRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) arrives on stage at a campaign event for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at the Ames City Auditorium on January 25, 2020 in Ames, Iowa</h2><h2>Why might Iowa be less relevant this year than in previous cycles?</h2>With an unusually large Democratic presidential field, Iowa may be less relevant this year than ever.A recent <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/09/iowa-caucus-democrats-2020-096337">Politico Magazine analysis found</a> that 2020 Democrats are spending much less time in the state ahead of the caucus than Democratic candidates in previous cycles, choosing instead to shore up support in states with far more delegates and high-dollar donors.In another notable twist, Democratic candidates in this cycle<a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/11/11/julian-castro-iowa-2020-caucus-primary-nation-first-election-diversity-white-voter-democrats-party/2563591001/"> have criticized the DNC</a> outright for putting Iowa and New Hampshire -- states that are overwhelmingly white -- first in the Democratic nomination process, which they argue puts candidates of color at a disadvantage. Given the fact that seven candidates are jostling for a win in Iowa and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-february-democratic-debates-who-qualified-how-to-watch-2019-12">have qualified for the February 7 debate in New Hampshire</a> ahead of the state's February 11 primary, they may not necessarily take a loss in Iowa as a sign they should suspend their campaigns altogether. While Iowa gets a disproportionate amount of attention from both candidates and the media by virtue of going first in the country, it also only holds just 1% of the total pledged delegates allocated throughout the nomination process from every US state and territory. Because Iowa just accounts for 1% of delegates, it's entirely possible for a candidate to not come in first or win many delegates in Iowa at all, and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-17/iowa-caucuses-you-don-t-have-to-win-to-be-the-winner-k5i4po5h">go on to win the nomination</a>, just as Trump did in 2016 after Sen. Ted Cruz won Iowa.This is especially true for candidates like Biden and Sanders, who <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/">already hold significant support</a> in delegate-rich parts of the country that vote later in the primary process, like the South and Midwest. The results of the Iowa caucuses will likely be more important for candidates like Warren, Buttigieg, and Sen. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-amy-klobuchar-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Amy Klobuchar</a> who are <a href="https://time.com/5756407/amy-klobuchar-iowa-tour-99-counties/">going all-in on Iowa</a> and are relying on a strong performance in the state to fuel their campaigns forward. If Buttigieg or Klobuchar earn very few or no delegates in Iowa - the state in which they've invested the most resources - it'll be a bad sign for their campaigns and could hinder their abilities to compete in future contests. Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/des-moines-register-endorses-elizabeth-warren-for-iowa-caucuses-2020-1">Iowa's biggest newspaper just endorsed Elizabeth Warren ahead of the state's February 3 caucuses</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-narrow-lead-iowa-caucus-still-up-for-grabs-2020-1">Recent polls indicate Bernie Sanders has a narrow lead going into the Iowa caucuses, but the contest is still largely up for grabs</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempt-to-boost-sanders-2020-candidacy-could-backfire-2020-1">Trump is trying to boost Bernie Sanders' profile to help him clinch the Democratic 2020 nomination, but it could backfire</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-democratic-nomination-delegate-selection-process-works-2020-1">Here's how Democrats will elect their presidential nominee over the next several months</a> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/georgetown-professor-reveals-people-wrong-mlk-martin-luther-king-jr-race-black-radical-racism-2017-5">A Georgetown professor explains how Martin Luther King Jr. 'has been severely whitewashed'</a></h3>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>In private, Mark Cuban has started discussing his role in national <keyword id="6358883" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Politics">politics</keyword> with his family.He told Business Insider, for instance, that he spoke with loved ones about his decision to campaign on the trail for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."We discussed how much of a threat I believe Trump to be," Cuban said in an email. "We discussed why it was important to me to get involved - that if I could have an impact and didn't try, it would have left me guessing forever."And, as Cuban said, his family feels "like we started on the right path" to "have a platform and voice for the future."Cuban, 58, is a self-made billionaire businessman and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. And he seems more serious than ever about running for president.Cuban refrained from engaging much in politics before the 2016 campaign cycle. But in the past two years he has openly flirted with a White House bid, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-mark-cuban-trump-2020-2017-2">teasing journalists</a> with <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/12/mark-cuban-on-running-for-president-i-wouldnt-say-never.html">tantalizing words</a> about his aspirations.It wasn't long ago that Cuban was shutting down questions about whether he'd seek the presidency one day, flatly rejecting the notion, as he did at the September presidential debate.But something changed. It was, as Cuban put it, "obvious": the election - unpredictability - of Trump."What I do depends on how things play out for the country," Cuban said referring to a 2020 attempt at unseating Trump.Like Trump, Cuban introduced himself to American households first as a prominent businessman and later through a reality-TV show. He had no formal history in politics, only suddenly emerging on the national political stage last year. His strategy for gaining political prominence was oddly similar to Trump's - deliver hot, unadulterated takes on cable TV, outlets like CNBC, Fox News, and CNN, and on Twitter.Yet Cuban does not embrace the comparison."He talked about running for office for 30 years," Cuban said. "I started talking about politics this year, after avoiding them the last almost 20 years, because I thought it was important to do so."In conversations with Business Insider, Cuban's longtime friends said they were initially surprised to see Cuban get involved politically, but they added that they could certainly now envision him entering the fray in 2020. And while it would be a climb to the White House for the tech titan, campaign experts have laid out a path Cuban could take to find himself in the Oval Office.<h2>Rising profile</h2>With Trump's improbable rise to the presidency, there's been no shortage of ultrawealthy, prominent business people rumored to be considering a run of their own in 2020.There's Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and Disney CEO Bob Iger, all of whom have fed the idea that Trump could face a fellow executive in his prospective 2020 reelection bid. But no nonpolitician has put him or herself out there quite like Cuban.Cuban, who grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, moved to Dallas in the early 1980s, finding work as a bartender. He caught his first big break after he started a software company, MicroSolutions, which he sold in 1990 for $6 million. But his biggest break came after he founded AudioNet, which became Broadcast.com, the streaming site he sold to Yahoo at the peak of the dot-com boom in 1999 for more than $5 billion in stock. A year later, he'd buy the Dallas Mavericks and become one of the NBA's most recognizable, and outspoken, owners.He showed minimal interest in politics in his years since striking it rich - until 2016, when his political presence grew exponentially after he started roiling Trump along the campaign trail.Initially, Cuban was warm to Trump, speaking about him in positive terms. But that eventually changed, and Cuban found himself delivering blistering stump speeches for Clinton and ripping Trump on a number of issues, including his wealth.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>When Trump won the presidency, Cuban went quiet again, ceasing his attacks on the country's newly elected leader.That lasted only so long, though. When Trump ignited chaos after signing his executive order on travel from certain majority-Muslim countries, Cuban appeared on several networks to voice his displeasure with both the decision and the president. He unleashed a bevy of tweets at the commander-in-chief, staking out a place as the de-facto leader of opposition among the small community of ultrawealthy business people.And Cuban has been merciless since. He has called Trump "<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/12/mark-cuban-on-running-for-president-i-wouldnt-say-never.html">the Zoolander president</a>." He has suggested Trump wouldn't be able to find the "C" if he was spotted the "A" and "B."Cuban, in a now deleted tweet, said he was "crushing" Trump because the president "earned it."That appeared to get under Trump's skin.Last month, Trump fired a shot at Cuban on Twitter, suggesting he was not "smart enough" to win the presidency - a claim Chris Sacca, the billionaire venture capitalist and "Shark Tank" costar, seemed to disagree with in an email to Business Insider."Only Mark can speak to his long-term ambitions in politics," Sacca said. "But unlike Donald, Mark is smart, reads extensively, and is willing to ask others for help and listen to their advice on issues that matter."But Trump isn't alone in his criticism. Cuban's newfound political platform has left him with a growing set of critics. One <a href="http://tikiandtierney.radio.cbssports.com/2017/03/08/frank-zaccanelli-mavericks-need-a-change-from-cuban/">of them</a> is Frank Zaccanelli, a Dallas real-estate mogul who was a part of the Mavericks ownership group headed by Texas billionaire Ross Perot Jr., who sold the team to Cuban in 2000.Zaccanelli, who calls himself a "pretty good student of Mark Cuban" although he "wouldn't say we're best friends or get along great," blasted Cuban for some of his statements and decisions during his de-facto tenure as Trump's foil in the business world."What he's doing now has put himself out there for a lot of criticism," Zaccanelli said.The former Mavericks executive was particularly dismayed by Cuban's <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/mark-cuban-offers-refund-to-mavericks-season-ticket-holder-angered-by-cubans-trump-criticism/">February tweet</a> to a season ticket holder who was upset by the owner's comments about Trump and said he would turn in his season tickets and boycott games.Cuban's response? "DM me and I'll help get it done."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>"The way I read it was that if you don't want to be a season ticket holder, I don't want you to be one," Zaccanelli said, suggesting that Cuban's political platform has been a drag on his businesses, particularly his pro-basketball team.But Cuban disputed the assertion."For every hate email there was a positive one as well," he said of the response to his political opining, adding that he didn't see his politics becoming a drag on the Mavericks because "remember, Clinton won Dallas County."A recent poll showed that the split sentiment in Cuban's inbox could be indicative of a larger one. The results of that poll, conducted by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, found that Cuban would be in a neck-and-neck race against the sitting president in a prospective one-on-one 2020 election.Tom Jensen, the pollster, said Cuban proved to be "pretty competitive given his comparatively low level of name recognition at this point."<h2>'He needs to hire someone to help create the entire campaign'</h2>For Cuban to have a serious chance at securing the White House, he would need to start taking policy positions and filling out the bare bones of a campaign infrastructure soon, campaign experts told Business Insider.And unlike Trump, Cuban would have to run more of a "traditional campaign," said Terry Sullivan, Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign manager."He definitely comes across as a more cerebral and thoughtful candidate than Donald Trump, and he's clearly got a better, self-made billionaire story," Sullivan told Business Insider. "But ... because of that, he's not willing to set his hair on fire to make news in the same way. So it makes it a little more difficult for him to cut through [the noise] than a Trump [type]."The first steps to laying out a campaign infrastructure, Sullivan said, would be to get informed on the issues and begin to take positions on key areas of policy.Cuban has already started to do that. He put forth a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-healthcare-plan-2017-3">proposal</a> to fix the Affordable Care Act, and he hammered away at a jobs platform heavily focused on dealing with what he sees as an upcoming wave of job loss due to automation, necessitating "macro"-level changes to economic policies.Should he decide to run, Cuban will also need to address what the future of his business empire would look like - something he said he has already considered."I have so many private business investments that it would be impossible to sell them," Cuban told Business Insider. "I would put them in a blind trust but make it clear I would still be available on a limited basis for those companies. It wouldn't be fair to those companies if I just bailed on them."I would also be very transparent," he went on, seeming to take a jab at Trump, who has come under fire from ethics experts who have said Trump has not come close to fully complying with conflicts-of-interest laws and severing his business interests. "Truly transparent about what I was doing. And yes, I would make my returns available."Sullivan said the next step would be to "get the media's attention that you're a serious candidate." He suggested Cuban start traveling to states like Iowa to hint he may be serious about getting in the fray."The amount of attention he would draw by doing a Lincoln Dinner in Davenport, Iowa, would be huge," Sullivan said. "Those are the kind of things he has to start with."Sullivan added that Cuban should "absolutely" hire a team of political advisers to develop a long-term strategy for him if he is sincerely interested in pursuing the White House.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div>Cuban, Sullivan said, should also "start at the top" and find someone, preferably with experience, who could manage his campaign. From there, he could consult that person to make other hires."You reach out to people who've done it before," Sullivan said. "I mean, he shouldn't be out there worrying about hiring - I'm going to hire a press person here or a TV guy here or a policy guy here. He needs to hire someone to help create the entire campaign."The core team would also have to come up with a plan for victory. At this stage, Sullivan said it isn't clear whether Cuban would be better off running as an independent or a Democrat.Cuban is not registered with a political party, and he would have to commission additional polls to gather data to see what his best route would be at this early stage."Plus, it is so early in the Trump administration. You can start laying the groundwork on things you need to do, but it doesn't necessarily mean you need to make some clear decisions," Sullivan said. "You go into a more preliminary mode now, where you just put yourself in a position to succeed and then make commitments for closer in on how you're going to run."Cuban seems content dishing out his takes on cable news and Twitter. But this isn't a long-term model for someone who's going to have to go a more traditional route, Sullivan said."Smart tactics are not necessarily smart strategy," he added.Reed Galen, deputy campaign manager for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2006 reelection bid, told Business Insider that Cuban is going to have to figure out how much of his own money he wants to spend, which he suggested might need to be upwards of $500 million if he decides to run an independent presidential bid."He won't have the party apparatus helping raise money," said Galen, now the owner of Jedburghs, a political consultancy firm. "There would be people from both parties who would likely work for him. But the traditional networks that raise money for these people are at least initially out of bounds or unavailable. So how much of his own money is he willing to spend?"Galen said Cuban needs to hire experts who have good political instincts and experience, can convince Cuban against pursuing a bad idea, and who understand that Cuban's campaign will have to be "unique to his style."It's also a matter of figuring out who Cuban's base would be and where he would compete on the map. As an independent, he would need to run essentially a 50-state campaign, depending on his endgame. As a Democrat, the map would look slightly different. Ballot access would also be a huge question, and Galen said starting early on that would be essential to an independent bid."Who is the base for a candidate like Mark Cuban?" Galen asked. "A lot of research and a lot of work needs to go into that, because you've got to figure out who you've got to go talk to.""What's the goal? Is the goal to get to 270? Or is the goal to get to a draw between the two major parties and an independent candidate and throw it to Congress? And what does that look like?"Galen said that the states Cuban should most closely look to include Texas, where the strategist said he would likely have some home-state advantage, as well as some of the states where the past two presidential races were closely fought. Places like Pennsylvania, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida should be key targets.In states like those, Galen said Cuban could find himself carving out "30% in the middle," possibly enough to win in a plurality.Cuban also needs to figure out exactly what his message is to "invigorate and bring together a very divided and ... nervous country," Galen said."How is he going to bring a very tribalistic political society?" he asked. "Republicans and Democrats. How're you going to start to peel off those people who have decided that the two-party system doesn't work anymore and are willing to take an independent as a legitimate choice."Galen did acknowledge that Cuban "would be a fascinating addition to the presidential contenders list." He also provided Cuban with advice on what the absolutely first thing he should do is."What I'd have him do is read '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Takes-Way-White-House/dp/0679746498?tag=bisafetynet-20">What It Takes' from Richard Ben Cramer</a>," Galen said, referring to a book on the 1988 presidential election. "Because there is not going to be any better opus on what it means to run for president than that book."Short of doing it, of course."<h2>'He thinks 10 moves ahead'</h2>The idea that a Cuban candidacy is being chatted about among the political class is stunning to his lifelong friends.Then again, so was the fact he became such a prominent surrogate for Clinton and inserted himself right in the middle of the heated 2016 discussion."It's hard to believe," said Todd Reidbord, the president of Pittsburgh-based Walnut Capital, who has been a close friend of Cuban's since the two grew up together in Mt. Lebanon, a prominent Pittsburgh suburb. "The whole thing is like a dream ... None of us could've ever predicted that. But that's Mark."Reidbord described his friend as "unpredictable" and explained how he was "totally" shocked when Cuban was blasting Trump as a top Clinton surrogate, elevating himself in the political world in the process. When Cuban stumped for the Democratic presidential nominee in Pittsburgh, Reidbord was there to see it firsthand.It would be surprising to Reidbord if Cuban decided to take that extra step and seek the presidency. But at this point, nothing really surprises Reidbord about his old pal anymore."Every time I've ever tried to guess what he's going to do next," he said, "I've never guessed right."Stu Chaban, another longtime friend of Cuban from Mt. Lebanon, said he's confident the billionaire won't be shy about seeking the White House if it's something he genuinely desires."If it's the right thing for him and what he wants, he'll do it," Chaban said.In a sense, Chaban said it's going to come down to one thing: timing.Regardless, those who know him best expect that he's calculating his next moves."Mark is a chess player," Reidbord said. "He thinks 10 moves ahead. I'm not sure that Trump is thinking 10 moves ahead. Mark certainly is." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/budget-director-explains-trumps-proposed-cuts-meals-on-wheels-omb-white-house-press-briefing-2017-3">Watch Trump's budget director explain proposed cuts for after-school programs that feed children</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dpd3djYTE6f1HxjjUBrKQG6mZACfAYMT" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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