100 Year-Old Ex-President Jimmy Carter Casts Vote For Kamala Harris (X image @AuntSassyAss)
Jimmy Carter, the former President of US, who just turned 100, announced his support for Kamala Harris. He said he did not care about his age, and that “it’s just another birthday.”
Carter is the oldest ex-president of Us. He held the office from 1977 to 1981, during the Cold war era.
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His son, Chip Carter said that the former President spent his days watching speeches from the Democratic National Convention. “He thought Michelle Obama was the best, and he thought Kamala was great, too,” he said. Chip carter also said that his father does not believe that Trump should be the President again.
Speaking to Atlanta Journal Constitution, Carter’s grandson Jason Carter said that his grandfather told his father that he is only trying to make it to vote for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Chip Carter told Journal Constitution that his father is very “interested in politics and the war in Gaza.”
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Carter is overjoyed to cast his vote for Kamala Harris, according to his son.
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Republican candidate Donald Trump has always been of the opinion that Jimmy Carter was “the worst president.” However, more recently he said, “Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of our country, worse than Jimmy Carter by along shot.”
Georgia, Carter’s home town, is one of the seven key states of the upcoming Presidential election. During the 2020 election, Biden had a narrow win against Trump in the state. Biden had the upper hand of less than 1 percent of the vote in the state.
Carter’s family said he can’t wait to cast his mail-in ballot for Harris.
At the same time, social media platforms share different opinion on Carter waiting to exercise his rights at 100-year-old.
The picture of Carter went viral on X. One user said, “This is crazy. I have some dead relatives I can dig up and take to vote for Trump if this is what we’re doing now.”
Another user accused Democrats for wheeling Carter. The user wrote, “Shame on the Democrats for wheeling him out in that state.”
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Another one posed doubted if it really was Carter who is saying all this. “Did he actually vote or was it a family member that did it for him? Does anyone know if he’s even of sound mind and was capable of making his own decision?”
There were also users who are celebrating the news. One user wrote “Carter’s vote serves as a reminder that in American politics, age doesn’t necessarily diminish one’s sense of duty or the desire to shape the future. Ok? Ok.”
