Elon Musk says he wants "just a normal person" as president.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The 2024 presidential election is a year away, but Elon Musk already knows who he wants to see in office.

Musk has praised and criticized Biden and Trump alike, and he now says he wants a "normal person" as president.

He told Fox News he'd like a president "whose values are smack in the middle of the country."

Elon Musk says the ideal presidential candidate for him is "just a normal person."

In an interview that aired Monday night on Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the billionaire discussed his voting history and who he'd be inclined to vote for in 2024.

"I didn't vote for Donald Trump. I actually voted for Biden. Not saying I'm a huge fan of Biden because I would think that would probably be inaccurate, but you know, we have difficult choices to make in the presidential elections," Musk said.

Looking ahead, Musk added, "I would prefer, frankly, that we put just a normal person as president, a normal person with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country, just center of the normal distribution and I think that they would be great."

Musk has praised and criticized President Biden and Donald Trump alike in recent years. He's said the US and many other countries have a "gerontocracy," referring to a government controlled by citizens much older than most of the population. He's also called for maximum age limits for lawmakers and said politicians should be "ideally within 10 or at least, 20 years of the average age of the population."

Musk's outward political stances have shifted to the right in recent years. Last summer, he said he voted Republican for the first time, backing former Texas GOP Rep. Mayra Floresin a special election.

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