Jimmy Carter is trying to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris
Former President Jimmy Carter He turns 100 in less than two months and he hopes to live to be 100 so he can vote. Kamala Harris for the president. Carter’s anticipated birthday is October 1, just two weeks before his home state, Georgia, opens early voting for the 2024 general election.
“I was just trying to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son. Chipaccording to report from Atlanta Journal Constitution. Jason Carter, Jimmy’s grandson, a former state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, shared the conversation with the outlet, noting that his grandfather had been “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” in recent days.
Carter, the nation’s 39th president, was in terminal care since February 2023. And last August, he and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter to shared that they were entering their “final chapter” together. A few months later, in November, Rosalynn passed away at the age of 96.
In addition to voting, Carter plans to celebrate his birthday in early September with a packed concert night at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. Carter will honor by many artists, including Chuck Leavell, D-GoodTruck driver, Eric ChurchLOVE GROUP, Maren Morrisand the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, according to the Associated Press.
“Whether it was on his record player, on the campaign trail or on the White House lawn,” Jason said in a declare On the anniversary, “music was and is a source of joy, comfort and inspiration for my grandfather.”
Throughout Jimmy Carter’s health complications, he remained very active in politics.
Transparent summer protest In 2020, Carter released a declare condemned “racial injustice,” adding, “People with power, privilege, and a moral conscience must stand up and say ‘no’ to a racist police and justice system.” Later that year, he and Rosalynn be confirm Joe Biden for president in a prerecorded speech at the Democratic National Convention. (In 2019, he said that there should be an age limit for presidents and at age 80, he does not think he can “take on the duties that I experienced as president.”)
In May, according to his family, Carter voted in the Georgia primary. “He wouldn’t miss an election,” his nephew said. “That was important to him. I mean, that’s who he was.”
