Former President Jimmy Carter, who simply turned 100, has fulfilled his end-of-life aim of voting for Vice President Kamala Harris, his son informed The Atlanta Journal-Structure on Wednesday.
“I think he feels good,” Chip Carter informed the outlet, noting that his spouse dropped off the poll on his father’s behalf on the Sumter County Courthouse close to his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
“It was a good morning for him and good for us that he got it done,” Chip Carter added.
Jimmy Carter, who’s been in residence hospice take care of greater than a yr, has been “trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” and was extra enthusiastic about fulfilling that aim than turning 100 on Oct. 1, his household beforehand informed the Journal-Structure in August.
The longest-living president in American historical past, Carter served one time period from 1977 to 1981. He’s outlived two of his successors: Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, additionally spoke of the previous president’s voting plans on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August.
“My grandfather can’t wait to vote for Kamala Harris,” he mentioned on the gathering, which came about in Chicago. “She reminds us all that the promise of America remains unchanged. We are one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and my grandfather knows that with her as our next president, we will keep that promise.”
Information of Jimmy Carter casting his poll comes a day after the beginning of the early voting interval in Georgia, a serious battleground for Harris and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The most recent polls present the 2 are neck and neck within the state.
Trump mocked Carter on his current birthday, saying he should be “the happiest man because Carter is considered a brilliant president by comparison” to President Joe Biden.
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The GOP nominee, who can also be a one-term president, made the same assault in January. That point, he mocked Carter in the identical breath as discussing the loss of life of his spouse of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter.
“My wife attended the funeral two months ago of Rosalynn Carter and it was beautiful and Jimmy Carter was there,” Trump mentioned. “And I thought to myself, Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will go down as being a brilliant president by comparison to Joe Biden.”
