Nearing his 100th birthday and in hospice care since February 2023, the former president Jimmy Carter reportedly has one goal: voting for Kamala Harris against Donald Trump.
“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week, as his grandson Jason Carter recounted to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Harris, Carter’s fellow Democrat, will face the Republican Trump for the presidency on 5 November. Carter’s 100th birthday will fall on 1 October.
A Democrat who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981, Carter is the oldest living president. In ill health for several years, his family announced that he entered hospice care on 18 February 2023. Many took that announcement to mean Carter was near the end of his life.
Jimmy Carter lives long enough to vote.
Dies.
The next day:
Fox News “Kamala Harris killed Jimmy Carter!”
“Did she do it because she’s not black? More from our thinly veiled racist guest at 8.”
Call me a pessimist, but I’d be willing to bet the Republicans would put up legislation to argue that anyone that dies after the election within X number of days has their vote disqualified.
They’d argue that he really died after the vote. “Are we sure they didn’t declare his death two days later just to cast in his vote?”