Noem: Cuban's comment about women shows Harris campaign 'panicking'

South Dakota's Gov. Kristi Noem condemned Mark Cuban’s comments about former President Trump during a Friday appearance on Fox News and said his words signal that Vice President Harris’s campaign is “panicking.”

“What surprised me the most about him was how emotional Mark Cuban was, how clearly he is panicking, and so are the people who support Vice President Harris and want her back at the White House,” Noem told anchor Sean Hannity. 

“They're panicking because they see Donald Trump out relating with the American people, spending time with them, having fun, talking about what a bright future we would have with his leadership, and that we could have four more years of prosperity like we enjoyed the last time he was in the White House,” the Republican governor added.

Cuban faced significant backlash after making comments that Trump is “intimidated” by intelligent women on "The View." He later clarified his statement and apologized for offending female Trump supporters and surrogates.

Noem said the comment is contrary to what she has known and heard about Trump since the 1980s. 

“I think about the Donald Trump that I've known, but even before I knew him, back in the 80s and 90s, how he elevated women, he put them in charge of his companies, on the leadership and executive teams. I have so many women who've come up to me over the years that said. ‘I worked with him back in New York City, and he gave me my first supervisor position and gave me the first opportunity to provide for my family and go after my career when I've been passed over so many times before,’” Noem recalled.

She later juxtaposed women’s views on Trump with how they felt about the Harris campaign. 

“That's the Donald Trump that I know and that I've heard about, and heard so many testimonies about and Mark Cuban and Joe Biden and President Obama and Kamala Harris, they've all insulted women throughout this campaign, because every day they get up and they get on TV and they lie, and if there's one thing a woman can discern, it's somebody who's lying to us and not being forthright,” she said.

Trump claimed that Cuban’s comments stemmed from being “insecure.”

“I know Mark very well. He’s a very insecure guy. He can’t hit a golf ball more than 50 yards,” Trump said during a Saturday call into Fox and Friends. “He’s weak physically and mentally as far as I’m concerned, but I’ve known him for a long time.”

The verbal back and forth between Cuban and Trump has been aired on cable television for the past week as both parties aim to attract voters in the final days before the election.