“Weeks shy of his 95th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he doesn’t believe he could have managed the most powerful office in the world at 80 years old,” the AP reports.
“Carter, who earlier this year became the longest-lived chief executive in American history, didn’t tie his comments to any of his fellow Democrats running for president, but two leading 2020 candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, would turn 80 during their terms if elected.”
Former President Jimmy Carter said that an investigation “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He was put into office because the Russians interfered,” USA Today reports.
When asked if that means he believes Trump is an illegitimate president, Carter said, “Based on what I said, which I can’t retract.”
Former President Jimmy Carter became America’s longest-living president ever on Thursday, surpassing former President George H.W. Bush, The Hill reports.
As of March 21, Carter is 94 years and 172 days old, a day older than Bush was when he died last November.
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Former President Jimmy Carter wrote on his official letterhead to his state’s Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp, asking him to resign as Georgia secretary of state, the AP reports.
Wrote Carter: “In Georgia’s upcoming gubernatorial election, popular confidence is threatened not only by the undeniable racial discrimination of the past and the serious questions that the federal courts have raised about the security of Georgia’s voting machines, but also because you are now overseeing the election in which you are a candidate. This runs counter to the most fundamental principle of democratic elections — that the electoral process be managed by an independent and impartial election authority.”
Former President Jimmy Carter confirmed to the New York Times that he and his wife voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2016 Democratic primary.
Jimmy Carter said that he had voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary over Hillary Clinton, the Daily Beast reports.
At an event with Sanders where the Vermont senator discussed the high voter participation rates in this weekend’s French presidential election — and how that level of participation is essential for the U.S. — Carter quipped “Can y’all see why I voted for him?”
Jimmy Carter would pick Donald Trump over Ted Cruz, Politico reports.
Said Carter: “I think I would choose Trump, which may surprise some of you. The reason is, Trump has proven already he’s completely malleable. I don’t think he has any fixed positions he’d go the White House and fight for. On the other hand, Ted Cruz is not malleable. He has far-right wing policies he’d pursue if he became president.”
“You know…he was so gracious — compared to these asses running.”
— Former Vice President Walter Mondale, quoted by BuzzFeed, comparing former President Jimmy Carter to the 2016 field.
A day after former President Jimmy Carter said his cancer had spread, Sen. Ted Cruz lit into him, MSNBC reports.
Said Cruz: “I think where we are today is very, very much like the late 1970’s. I think the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are uncanny, same failed domestic policy, same misery, stagnation and malaise, same feckless and naive foreign policy. In fact, the exact same countries, Russia and Iran, openly laughing at and mocking the president of the United States.”
It is worth noting that Cruz, in June, also joked about Joe Biden after the death of Biden’s son, Beau.
Jimmy Carter announced that he has cancer and will be undergoing treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, the Washington Post reports.
Carter, 90, said the disease was discovered during recent liver surgery to remove “a small mass” and that the cancer “is now in other parts of my body.”
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