Former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on October 1, says the hope of voting for Kamala Harris in November is the “only” thing keeping him going.
His health is failing, but Jimmy Carter is keeping an eye on his country’s politics. The 39th American president, who will celebrate his 100th birthday on October 1, hopes to be able to vote in November for Kamala Harris, the candidate of his camp, the Democratic Party, reports USA Today this Saturday, August 3. The American presidential election is scheduled to take place on November 5.
“I’m just trying to hang on to vote for Kamala Harris,” he told his son, Chip Carter, this week, according to the newspaper. Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Joe Biden’s current vice president said Friday she had received enough votes to win the Democratic nomination and plans to formally accept it next week.
Sick since 2015
A White House resident from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with brain tumors in 2015. Since February 2023, he has been receiving palliative care at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, 250 kilometers south of Atlanta, where he lived for several decades with his wife Rosalynn, who died in November.
The former president’s family has nevertheless assured that he voted last May in the Democratic primary in his state.
Despite his deteriorating health, the nonagenarian has never stopped commenting on the political life of his country, as in 2022 when he said he was “afraid for American democracy”, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the assault on the Capitol by Trumpist activists.
He had previously said that Donald Trump was an “illegitimate” president, due to Russian interference during the US presidential campaign.