Former president Jimmy Carter, who had said he wanted to live long enough to vote in this year\u2019s presidential election, cast an early ballot Wednesday in his home state of Georgia, according to the Carter Center.<\/p>\n
Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1, has been in hospice care for more than a year and a half, and had reportedly slipped into poorer health after the loss of his wife, Rosalynn, last November.<\/p>\n
But his grandson said last month that Carter was talking more, buoyed by the newly launched campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, and that he expressed a desire to live long enough to vote for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he didn\u2019t care about [turning 100]. It\u2019s just a birthday. He said he cared about voting for Kamala Harris,\u201d James Earl \u201cChip\u201d Carter III said in an interview with The Washington Post last month, referring to his grandfather.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does not believe Donald Trump should be president again,\u201d Chip Carter added.<\/p>\n
Early voting in Georgia began Tuesday. In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly won the state, flipping it for the Democrats for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n
A Carter Center spokesman declined to say who Jimmy Carter voted for, citing a secret ballot, but pointed to his grandson\u2019s past statements.<\/p>\n
Carter, who served one term in the White House from 1977 to 1981, became the first former U.S. president to live to 100. His hometown of Plains, Ga., threw elaborate festivities to mark the occasion this month, but Carter did not attend.<\/p>\n
Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Former president Jimmy Carter, who had said he wanted to live long enough to vote in this year\u2019s presidential election, cast an early ballot Wednesday in his home state of Georgia, according to the Carter Center. Carter, who turned 100 on Oct. 1, has been in hospice care for more than a year and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}