Former President Jimmy Carter has fulfilled his rumored wish of living long enough to cast a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
The 39th president filled out a mail ballot that was reportedly dropped off Wednesday at the Sumter County Courthouse in Americus, near Carter’s hometown of Plains, by his daughter-in-law Becky Payne.
“I think he feels good,” the former president’s son Chip Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It was a good morning for him and good for us that he got it done.”
The Carter Center declined to specify for whom the former president voted, citing the principle of the secret ballot — but Chip was adamant that the centenarian “absolutely” backed Harris and told the AJC his father “never voted for a Republican in his life.”
Jimmy Carter became the first former president to live 100 years on Oct. 1.
He is currently in hospice care, and has been since February of last year.
Chip previously claimed that his father confided in him that “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris.”
The former president’s grandson, Jason Carter, electrified the Democratic National Convention in August when he proclaimed that his grandfather “cannot wait to vote” and said that Harris “carries my grandfather’s legacy.”
Jimmy Carter’s health is believed to have deteriorated significantly the death of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19 of last year at the age of 96.
The former president was spotted in public on his 100th birthday for the first time in months, surrounded by his family in his backward while watching a flyover of four Navy F-18 jets.
Early voting in Georgia commenced Tuesday with more than 300,000 ballots cast, according to data from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
The Peach State is widely considered to be one of the seven crucial battlegrounds in the 2024 cycle, having gone for President Biden in 2020 after backing Republicans in the previous six presidential races.
