Former President Jimmy Carter slyly revealed who he voted for in the Democratic primary Monday — and it seems he’s still feeling the Bern.
Carter dropped a mention of his vote to the crowd at the Carter Center, where Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joined him for a discussion about global peace and human rights.
During the lengthy talk, Sanders mentioned the Unites States’ low voter turnout rates and how that tends to swing elections for conservatives. That statement apparently struck a chord with Carter.
“Can y’all see why I voted for him?” Carter said to some laughs from the crowd.
Carter previously stayed mostly mum about the 2016 election, declining to endorse either candidate in the primary and quietly endorsing Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, calling her “unpopular” in his endorsement.
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It was nice of Mr. Carter to vote for someone somewhat younger than himself.
Jimmy Carter is a great man, with great intelligence, who has always had the right priorities. Now go ahead…
Go ahead what? No one here beats on anyone that voted for him in the primaries. The issues are with those that took their toys and went home during the general because of some insane purity test Sanders can’t even meet.
Since I don’t have a copy of the transcript of the discussion, did they also bring up voter suppression? Did they bring up a possible solution for voter suppression and low voter turnout? Did they address the ways in which changing demographics are reshaping the country?
Or was it just two elderly White men sitting around bitching about how the young people need to get off their lawns and go back to the good old days when they had some power?
Nothing wrong with voting for Bernie Sanders in the primary. Everything wrong, after Clinton won by a landslide, to maintain that the Democratic Party should overturn the vote because Bernie. (Whose success, such as it was, was based on the democratic farce and monument to class inequality known as the caucus.)
Jimmy Carter did none of that.