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Mark Cuban pegged as potential third-party candidate by anti-Trump Republicans

Mark Cuban is among the prospects who have been contacted by a group of Republican insiders appalled at the notion of Donald Trump representing the party in the 2016 presidential election, the Washington Post reports.

The group of GOP figures, which includes 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, several consultants and conservative intellectuals, is exploring ways to put an independent candidate in the election against Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Cuban, like the rest of the people the group has reached out to, does not seem interested.