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Carter: Trying to Live to Vote for Harris

» Updated: 20 September 2024, 07:18

» Published: 03 August 2024

Carter: Trying to Live to Vote for Harris
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The USA's former president Jimmy Carter, 99, is determined to live so that he can vote for Kamala Harris in the autumn's presidential election. The former president, who will turn 100 on October 1, has been receiving palliative care for over a year.

I'm just trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris, Carter said to his son Chip last week, which his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

According to what the family tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the former president has recently been "more alert and interested in politics".

Harris, Carter's Democratic party colleague, will face Republican Trump in the presidential election on November 5. Early voting in the state of Georgia begins on October 15 - two weeks after the former president's 100th birthday.

Carter, who sat in the White House from 1977-1981, is the oldest living former president. He has been ill for several years and his family announced that he would start receiving palliative care as early as February 2023 - something that many interpreted as Carter being near the end of his life.

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