Former President Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care for more than a year, voted last week in the Georgia primary in May, his grandson said in a new interview.
Jason Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Monica Pearson Show” that his grandfather voted by mail in the election.Georgia’s May primary election is scheduled for next week, but early voting in the Peach State began April 29.
“He’s not going to miss the election,” Jason Carter said. “That’s important to him. I mean, that’s the kind of person he is.”
Jason Carter told USA TODAY last year that his grandfather and President Joe Biden were in touch “relatively regularly.”
Jimmy Carter, 99, entered hospice care in February 2023. Although hospice care is often associated with the immediate end of a person’s life, it is not necessarily a short-term option. The Carter Center, a global charity founded in 1982 by Jimmy Carter and his former first lady Rosalynn Carter, announced last year that the former president would not receive “additional medical intervention.”
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In an interview published last week, Jason Carter said he recently drew laughter from his grandfather when he told him, “People ask me every day how I’m doing, and I say I don’t know.”
“He looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know who I am,'” Jason Carter said.
The former president’s grandson noted Jimmy Carter’s lifelong commitment to his faith, adding, “He’s trying, but he knows it’s not his fault.”
“He may be immortal. No evidence to the contrary has yet been found,” joked Jason Carter.
Rosalynn Carter passed away last year at the age of 96. Jason Carter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that his grandfather spent hours saying goodbye to his wife at the end of her life.
“He had the opportunity to say goodbye and things were completely uneventful after that. And after 77 years of marriage, it’s incredible to see it come to an end like that.” “That’s what happened,” he said on “The Monica Pearson Show.”
Jimmy Carter attended Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service last year, but was not well enough to speak at the memorial service.
