{"id":107523,"date":"2024-10-16T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jimmy-carter-casts-ballot-in-2024-election\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:04:20","slug":"jimmy-carter-casts-ballot-in-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jimmy-carter-casts-ballot-in-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter casts ballot in 2024 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-16\/News_jimmycarter_101624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Scott Cunningham\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(ATLANTA) Former President Jimmy Carter has voted in the 2024 election, the Carter Center confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, the oldest living president, voted by mail on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Carter Center.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Carter, the former president&#8217;s grandson, told ABC News earlier this week that the former president planned on voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in the &#8220;next couple of days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be the next couple days; the absentee ballots have gone out,&#8221; Jason Carter said.<\/p>\n<p>Carter recently celebrated his 100th birthday. As he neared the milestone, his family said he was trying to live until he could vote for Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Carter entered hospice care in early 2023 amid health challenges. Last year, he made a rare public appearance when he attended a memorial service for his late wife, Rosalynn Carter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/jimmy-carter-just-turned-100-fulfilled-wish-to-vote-for-kamala-harris\/HTE7BVP3AZDIJJNZE3XPYPNGXI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>\u00a0was the first to report the news of Carter&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Cunningham\/Getty Images (ATLANTA) Former President Jimmy Carter has voted in the 2024 election, the Carter Center confirmed Wednesday. Carter, the oldest living president, voted by mail on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Carter Center. Jason Carter, the former president&#8217;s grandson, told ABC News earlier this week that<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jimmy-carter-casts-ballot-in-2024-election\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}