Elon Musk, chief govt officer of Tesla Inc., in the course of a hearth dialogue on artificial intelligence dangers with Rishi Sunak, Uk key minister, not pictured, in London, Uk, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Sunak convened this week’s AI summit in an work to posture the Uk at the forefront of worldwide attempts to stave off the hazards presented by the promptly-advancing technology, which in the primary minister’s possess words, could increase as considerably as human extinction. Photographer: Tolga Akmen/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Elon Musk reported Wednesday that he won’t vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, even if former president Donald Trump is the Republican nominee.
“I would not vote for Biden,” Musk mentioned during a huge-ranging job interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit in New York. “I’m not declaring I might vote for Trump.”
When asked what he’d do if people were the two nominees, Musk said, “This is absolutely a tough selection listed here.”
Musk, who suggests he supported Barack Obama’s candidacy, has moved rightward in his politics in latest many years, producing in a tweet last 12 months that “present-day Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.”
While he has not endorsed a specific prospect for the 2024 election, Musk reported previous yr that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was his most well-liked choice at the time. He also hosted DeSantis’s campaign start on X, formerly Twitter. A lot more lately, Musk has reported that Vivek Ramaswamy is “wanting like a robust applicant.”
Musk instructed Sorkin on Wednesday that he disagrees with Ramaswamy on local climate troubles, but he shares some of the candidate’s sights on authorities overreach and censorship. DeSantis’s title did not appear up in the interview.
When asked if he could assist Nikki Haley among the the Republicans, Musk stated no and described the previous South Carolina governor as a “pro-censorship applicant.”
In phrases of which get together is a lot more favorable to freedom of speech, Musk mentioned that “on balance, the Democrats look to be more pro-censorship than Republicans,” which he characterized as a transform from the earlier.
“We unquestionably get additional problems from the left than the appropriate,” Musk explained.
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