Former US President Jimmy Carter will turn 100 in two months, but with the US election falling just after his birthday, he has told his family he has a second reason to turn 100: to vote for Kamala Harris.

Carter, who entered hospice care in February 2023, has defied all odds and outlasted the public. He will reach 100 on October 1.

“I'm just trying to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip last week, according to his grandson Jason Carter in a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, charitable advocate and former peanut farmer, is the longest-lived president in US history.