Jimmy Carter Wants To Live Long Enough To Vote For VP Harris

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter could also be residing on borrowed time at 99 years outdated; nonetheless, he has large plans for making it to 100 and voting for Kamala Harris.

In response to Individuals, Carter’s son studies that the virtually centenarian has his sights set on exercising his proper to vote, one final time, and casting a poll for Vice President Kamala Harris. Carter has been in hospice look after over a 12 months. Nonetheless, his family members say he’s been “extra alert and focused on politics and the warfare in Gaza” in current days.

“I’m solely attempting to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” he mentioned, in response to his son, Chip Carter.

Although the election is over a month previous what can be his a centesimal birthday, the thirty ninth U.S. president would be capable to forged his poll early in his present state of Georgia. His vote would nonetheless rely even within the occasion of his dying.

When it comes to making Carter’s dying want come true, the newest information confirming Harris because the Democratic Get together’s nominee for president is an effective signal. Earlier this 12 months, Carter’s grandson Jason mentioned the previous politician was “not awake on daily basis.”

Earlier than his well being started to quickly decline, Carter didn’t attempt to cover his disdain for former President Donald Trump.

“I believe it’s well-known that the incumbent [President Trump] may be very careless with the reality,” Jimmy informed CBS Information in a 2018 interview. “I believe I went by way of my marketing campaign and my presidency with out ever mendacity to the individuals or making a intentionally false assertion, and I believe that will be a really worthwhile factor to reinsert into politics nowadays.”

He continued,

“I believe he’s a catastrophe … In human rights and in treating individuals equal.”

Carter’s storied historical past in politics has garnered him reward and respect from politicians in each events. As president, he appointed the primary Black lady to the U.S. Cupboard in Patricia Roberts Harris, who served as Secretary of the Division of Housing and City Improvement within the late Nineteen Seventies. He additionally stood on the frontlines for equality in each race and gender.