Jimmy Carter says he hopes to vote for Kamala Harris

Former President Jimmy Carter, the oldest surviving president, is hoping to ballot for Kamala Harris during the November elections, his grandson said.

"I'm lone trying to marque it to ballot for Kamala Harris," the 99-year-old erstwhile president said, according to his grandson, Jason Carter, who relayed a speech Carter had with his lad Chip earlier this week to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

CNN has reached retired to the Carter Center for a statement.

Carter, who is acceptable to crook 100 connected October 1, entered hospice attraction successful February 2023 aft a bid of infirmary stays. Jason Carter said successful May the 39th president is "coming to an end" erstwhile providing an update connected his health.

Carter, a Democrat and one-term president, is simply a subsister of metastatic encephalon crab and liver crab and underwent abrain surgeryafter a autumn successful 2019. The erstwhile president is wide revered for his championing of quality rights and brokering the Camp David Accords successful 1978 betwixt Egypt and Israel.

Carter, a peanut husbandman and US Navy lieutenant earlier entering politics, served 1 word arsenic politician of Georgia earlier becoming president.

By the erstwhile president's broadside was his woman of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, who passed distant successful November, conscionable days aft entering hospice care. The erstwhile archetypal lady, a humanitarian and intelligence wellness advocator who was an influential fig successful the White House, founded theCarter Center with her hubby successful his post-presidency successful hopes of advancing satellite bid and health.

CNN's Michelle Shen contributed to this report.

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