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Former President Jimmy Carter says he’s “only trying to make it” to vote for Kamala Harris as he nears his a hundredth birthday.

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter instructed his son Chip. Their dialog with shared with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by his grandson, Jason Carter.

The former president was requested by his son about his a hundredth birthday on October 1, and Carter insisted that electing Harris is precedence. Jason Carter stated his grandfather has been “more alert and interested in politics and the war in Gaza” not too long ago.

Carter’s fierce dedication to defeat Donald Trump in November comes as he enters his 18th month in hospice care. Early voting begins in his residence state of Georgia on October 15.

The Carter Center introduced this week that there’s a musical occasion deliberate for the previous president’s milestone birthday: “Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song.” The occasion might be held on September 17 on the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, the place “world-renowned artists performing live tributes and special guests celebrating President Carter’s legacy of service to humanity,” based on the Center.

In June, Jason shared with Southern Living that Carter is now not awake day by day “experiencing the world as best he can as he continues through this process” after shedding his spouse, Rosalynn Carter, in November 2023.

“After 77 years of marriage… I just think none of us really understand what it’s like for him right now,” Jason stated on the time. “We have to embrace that fact, that there’s things about the spirit that you just can’t understand.”

Carter has defied the chances. The common size of keep in hospice care was 97 days, the median was 18 days, based on the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization information from 2020.

Jason instructed the outlet in June that whereas it initially appeared like he would solely have a number of days left along with his grandfather after he went into hospice care in February 2023: “God had other plans.” He is the longest-lived president in US historical past.