Chicago – October 16, 2024
Before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter told his family that his goal was to hold on long enough to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, he fulfilled that wish by casting his vote for the vice president.
Earlier this year, Carter told his son, Chip Carter, “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Carter Center, founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in the 1980s, confirmed to USA TODAY that the former president voted by mail on Wednesday.
Turning 100 on October 1, Carter, the oldest living U.S. president, celebrated his birthday at his home in Plains, Georgia. He has been in hospice care since February 2023, following a cancer diagnosis in 2015 that later spread to his brain.
Chip Carter’s wife, Becky, delivered Jimmy Carter’s ballot to a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse, near Plains. “I think he feels good,” Chip Carter said. “It was a good morning for him and good for us that he got it done.”
