Elon Musk doubts he’ll vote for Biden in 2024 – but that doesn’t mean he’s backing Trump

Elon Musk doubts he’ll be voting for Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

“I think I would not vote for Biden,” the Tesla founder said during a 90-minute interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday, when asked what his voting intentions were.

“I’m not saying I’d vote for Trump,”, he added, after a pause.

When asked by moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin who he’d vote for in a potential match-up between Trump and Biden, he couldn’t offer any certainty.

“This is definitely a difficult choice here,” he said with a laugh.

Delving into his issues with the Democrat president, Musk raised the White House’s failure to invite Tesla to an EV summit early in the Biden administration.

“They held an electric vehicle summit at the White House and specifically refused to let Tesla attend,” Musk said. “Biden went on to add insult to injury and publicly said GM was leading the electric car revolution.”

The Tesla founder also weighed in on other leading Republican candidates, stressing that he hasn’t yet endorsed anybody.

He dismissed Nikki Haley as a “pro-censorship candidate,” pointing to her proposal that all social media users should be required to identify themselves. She’s since toned down this stance, per The Washington Post.

Musk said he disagreed with Vivek Ramaswamy over his climate change denial, but said Ramaswamy’s interest in tackling “government overreach” made him a strong candidate.

Musk, who previously said he supported Barack Obama, has described himself as a centrist and claimed it’s the Democrats that had veered more to the left.

Musk has increasingly supported rightwing candidates, offering his social media platform X to Ron DeSantis for his launch of his presidential run back in May.

In 2022, he said he would support DeSantis if he ran for the presidency, but did not mention the Florida governor during Wednesday’s interview.

“My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist,” he has previously responded to a tweet.

Under his ownership, X has been accused of enabling rightwing extremism, hate speech, and disinformation.

At the DealBook summit Musk also took aim at advertisers that have pulled their business from X in response to his recent antisemitic post: “If someone is going to blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”

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