Nearing his 100th birthday and in hospice care since February 2023, the former president Jimmy Carter reportedly has one goal: voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week, as his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Harris, Carter’s fellow Democrat, will face the Republican Trump for the presidency on 5 November. Carter’s 100th birthday will fall on 1 October.

A Democrat who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981, Carter is the oldest living president. In ill health for several years, his family announced that he entered hospice care on 18 February 2023. Many took that announcement to mean Carter was near the end of his life.

  • dneaves@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Imagine being so disliked that it becomes the goal of elderly voters to live long enough to vote against you, nevermind that it’s a former president

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      3 months ago

      The fact that its Carter doesnt mean a whole lot, hes already one of the nicest guys to come out of America. It would be more of an endorsement of someone like Bush were to be disavowing Trump

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    4 months ago

    Jimmy Carter lives long enough to vote.
    Dies.
    The next day:
    Fox News “Kamala Harris killed Jimmy Carter!”