Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a hearth discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Sunak convened this week’s AI summit in an effort to position the UK on the forefront of worldwide efforts to stave off the risks presented by the rapidly-advancing technology, which within the prime minister’s own words, could extend so far as human extinction. Photographer: Tolga Akmen/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Elon Musk said Wednesday that he won’t vote for President Joe Biden within the 2024 election, even when former president Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.
“I might not vote for Biden,” Musk said during a wide-ranging interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin on the DealBook Summit in Recent York. “I’m not saying I’d vote for Trump.”
When asked what he’d do if those were the 2 nominees, Musk said, “This is unquestionably a difficult selection here.”
Musk, who says he supported Barack Obama’s candidacy, has moved rightward in his politics lately, writing in a tweet last yr that “today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.”
While he hasn’t endorsed a selected candidate for the 2024 election, Musk said last yr that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was his preferred selection on the time. He also hosted DeSantis’s campaign launch on X, formerly Twitter. More recently, Musk has said that Vivek Ramaswamy is “looking like a powerful candidate.”
Musk told Sorkin on Wednesday that he disagrees with Ramaswamy on climate issues, but he shares a number of the candidate’s views on government overreach and censorship. DeSantis’s name didn’t come up within the interview.
When asked if he could support Nikki Haley among the many Republicans, Musk said no and described the previous South Carolina governor as a “pro-censorship candidate.”
When it comes to which party is more favorable towards freedom of speech, Musk said that “on balance, the Democrats look like more pro-censorship than Republicans,” which he characterised as a change from the past.
“We definitely get more complaints from the left than the appropriate,” Musk said.
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