Ex-US president Jimmy Carter wants to live to 100 to vote for Kamala Harris
- The longest-lived US president’s birthday is October 1, and he will be able to vote in the election as early as two weeks later
Former US president Jimmy Carter turns 100 in two months, but with the US election falling just after his birthday, he has told family he has a secondary motivation for becoming a centenarian: voting for Kamala Harris.
Carter, who entered hospice care in February 2023 has defied all odds, persevering far longer than the public expected. He will reach the hundred mark this October 1.
“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip last week, according to his grandson Jason Carter in a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.
Carter, a Nobel peace laureate, champion of charitable causes and a former peanut farmer, is the longest-living president in US history.
Jason Carter said his grandfather had been “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” in recent days, according to the AJC.
