Former President Jimmy Carter, 100, hopes to vote for Kamala Harris

Jimmy Carter, The oldest former US president, he hopes to be able to vote for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harrisin the elections next November, when he will be 100 years old, said his grandson Jason Carter.

My grandfather is “trying to get there to vote for Kamala Harris,” Jason told The Atlanta Journal of former President Carter, who is now 99 years old and has been in hospice care since February 2023.

(The former president) is “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza,” he said.

October 1, 2024 Jimmy Carter He will turn 100 years old and, starting October 15, he will be able to vote early in the state of Georgia, where he resides.

For the Republican Party, the candidate is Donald Trumpwho was president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and will once again seek the highest public office.

Jimmy Carter’s health

In 2015, Jimmy Carter He underwent cancer treatment after a small mass was removed from his liver, which later spread to his brain, where four malignant melanomas were found.

Following treatment, doctors said that, contrary to all expectations, the former president was now cancer-free.

In addition, the former president has suffered several falls that limited his mobility; for example, in 2019 he fell and fractured his pelvis.

Politician, Nobel Prize winner, writer, catechist…

Carter’s term lasted only four years, from 1977 to 1981, due largely 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.

Since 1982, the Carter Center has promoted advances in election observation, human rights and public health around the world. In 2002, she received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The former president has also written twenty books since he left the presidency and gave catechism classes in his church in Plainsthe city of Georgia where he was born.

His last public appearance was in November 2023 at the funeral of his wife, the former first lady. Rosalynn Carterwho died on the 19th of that month after receiving palliative care at home, as the former president now receives.

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