Former US President Jimmy Carter hopes to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in November’s general election, when he will be 100 years old, his grandson said.
Jason Carter explained to the newspaper The Atlanta Journal that his grandfather, in palliative care since February 2023, is “trying to get there to vote for Kamala Harris.”
Jimmy Carter y Kamala Harris
According to his grandson, Carter is “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza.”
The former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner will turn 100 on October 1 and, starting October 15, he will be able to vote early in the state of Georgia, where he resides.
In 2015, Carter underwent cancer treatment after having a small mass removed from his liver, which later spread to his brain, where four malignant melanomas were found.
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Jimmy Carter
The former president also suffered several falls in the past that limited his mobility, such as the one in 2019 in which he fractured his pelvis.
Carter, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, served only four years, from 1977 to 1981, largely due to the impact of the 1979 American hostage crisis in Iran.
After leaving the White House, the Democratic politician continued to influence the country’s political life from a progressive perspective, even though the most conservative have continued to criticize his management.
The former president has also written around twenty books since leaving office and has taught catechism at his church in Plains, the Georgia town where he was born.
His last public appearance was in November 2023 at the funeral of his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died on November 19 after receiving palliative care at home, as the former president currently does.
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2024-08-05 03:00:00
