The 39th President of the United States, beloved Jimmy Carter, has some bad news for Donald J. Trump — at least in a roundabout sort of way
According to President Carter’s grandson Jason Carter, in remarks made to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the 99-year-old former US president who is currently in hospice care and just less than two months away from celebrating his 100th birthday, is holding out to ensure that he can cast his vote for Kamala Harris in the November president election.
Jason Carter, a former Georgia state senator, said President Carter’s son, Chip Carter, asked his father if he was trying to hold on to make it to his big 100th birthday. According to his grandson Jason, the widely beloved former president said, “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”
Jimmy Carter is already officially both the oldest living and longest-living United States president in the history of America. President Carter entered hospice care at his Georgia home in February of 2023.
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The former president will see his 100th birthday on October 1st, and early voting in the state of Georgia opens on October 15th.
Carter has long been considered one of the most dear and beloved presidents this nation has ever seen, and he’s long boasted a vocal and public distaste for the former New York real estate “mogul” and washed-up reality TV “star” who went on to become the 45th President of the United States.
While President Carter has defended Donald Trump against the media in the past, back in 2019, he went so far as to suggest that the now scandal-plagued and felony-convicted former president was an illegitimate POTUS: “Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
While Trump hasn’t seemed to personally attack President Carter, he has invoked his predecessor in many of his attacks against his successor, Joe Biden.
In a campaign speech that took place in January, just shortly after former First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away, Trump brought up Rosalynn’s funeral (which his wife Melania attended, but he did not.)
“It was beautiful. Jimmy Carter was there,” Trump said of Rosalynn’s funeral, “I thought to myself, ‘Jimmy Carter is happy now because he will go down as a brilliant president by comparison to Joe Biden.'”
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