Jimmy Carter, the oldest living former U.S. president, is approaching his milestone 100th birthday on October 1st.

However, Carter has something else on his mind as he approaches his birthday.

The 99-year-old’s family revealed he’s trying to “make it” to vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Carter on Oct. 1 would make U.S. history as the only president ever to live to be 100 years old. The Democratic former president has been receiving hospice care for over a year. Initially, family was told he had a matter of days to live. In 2015, the 39th president was diagnosed with cancer that had spread to his brain. In 2019, Carter broke his hip.

Jason Carter said in June that his grandfather is “experiencing the world as best he can as he continues through this process” and that Carter isn’t awake every day, though he’ll occasionally crack jokes with family.

From the New York Post:

The Georgia peanut farmer, who served as president from 1977 to 1981, entered hospice care in February 2023 and was not expected to live much longer.

Eighteen months later, his grandson said he recently told Chip he was much more concerned about seeing Harris, 59, elected to the White House over her opponent, former President Donald Trump, 78, rather than reaching the century mark.

He’s also “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza,” Jason Carter, a former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, added.

The remark comes just three months after he gave an ominous update about this grandfather’s health.

“He really is, I think, coming to the end that, as I’ve said before, there’s a part of this faith journey that is so important to him, and there’s a part of that faith journey that you only can live at the very end, and I think he has been there in that space,” Jason Carter said at the 28th Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum in May.

Carter would be able to cast his ballot just two weeks after his 100th birthday when Georgia’s early voting period kicks off on Oct. 15.

 

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