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((PLAYBOOK SLUG: E24 1023 Jimmy Carter’s Vote
HEADLINE: At 100, former President Carter votes in 2024 election, by mail
TEASER:
PUBLISHED AT: October 22, 2024 at 9:50 am
BYLINE: Kane Farabaugh
CONTRIBUTOR:
ASSIGNING EDITOR: Scott Stearns
DATELINE: Plains, Georgia
VIDEOGRAPHER: Kane Farabaugh, Adam Greenbaum
PRODUCER: Kane Farabaugh
SCRIPT EDITORS: DLJ, Page
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA
PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __
TRT: 2:39
VID APPROVED BY: Baragona
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EDITOR NOTES: trims throughout to get script under 3 minutes. There is a web story to be published along with this TV package.))
((INTRO)) [After becoming the first U.S. president to reach the age of 100, Jimmy Carter was able to fulfill a wish that he had expressed to his family. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh has more from Georgia.]
((NARRATOR))
Philip Kurland is surrounded by politics.
((NATURAL SOUND))
“These are the top two selling buttons.”
((NARRATOR))
If there’s a button or badge supporting a political candidate, chances are Kurland has it.
((Phillip Kurland, Political Memorabilia Dealer))
18:47:35 “We’re the largest political memorabilia dealer in the United States.”
((NARRATOR))
Kurland’s store isn’t just any ordinary shop in the country. It’s the Plains Trading Post… as in Plains, Georgia, the hometown of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, where the streets are lined with signs from the current election supporting both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.
Democrat Joe Biden won Sumter County, and narrowly won the state of Georgia in 2020.
((Phillip Kurland, Political Memorabilia Dealer))
19:03:20 “It’s shocking in a way that we’re a battleground state.”
((NARRATOR))
Polls show a close race in Georgia, and both campaigns recognize every vote counts, including a prominent one cast by mail-in ballot from the most famous resident of Plains.
((Phillip Kurland, Political Memorabilia Dealer))
18:56:57 “I don’t think he’d miss any opportunity to vote.”
((Jason Carter, The Carter Center))
02:10:13 “He was excited to turn 100, but he’s more excited to cast his ballot for Vice President Harris.”
((NARRATOR))
Jason Carter, Jimmy Carter’s grandson, is chairman of the board of the former president’s global nonprofit Carter Center.
((Jason Carter, The Carter Center))
02:10:25 “At the end of his 100-year life, that is continuing on as we know, to have grown up in the segregated south and for one of his last political acts to be helping elect a black woman as president, I do think it would be important.”
((Joe Crespino, Emory University))
17:26:49 “President Carter has already said that it was important for him to vote for Barack Obama in 2008.”
((NARRATOR))
Joe Crespino is a professor of history at Emory University. He believes Carter’s vote is connected to his legacy,
((PHOTO: AP))
specifically his efforts to get the Equal Rights Amendment prohibiting sex discrimination
((PHOTO: Mandatory CG: National Archives))
ratified in the U.S. Senate while president.
((Joe Crespino, Emory University))
17:26:56 “Voting for the first female
((PHOTO: AP))
candidate of color would be important for him not only because of his experiences with race over the course of his life but also his experiences in trying to advance the interests of women in public life.”
((For radio: Again, Jason Carter.))
((Jason Carter, The Carter Center))
01:210:43 “He wants to see this country brought back together, I think he wants to reduce that polarization, I think he wants us to focus on the things that make us Americans first and fundamentally, and I think he thinks she can do that.”
((NAT POP Phillip Kurland))
“I must have 1100 different Carter buttons.”
((NARRATOR))
Phillip Kurland says not everyone in Plains agrees with Jimmy Carter, or his candidate of choice.
((Phillip Kurland, Political Memorabilia Dealer))
18:50:02 “Even though he's firmly come out for Kamala Harris, everyone that’s not for her would instantly forgive him and still love him.”
((NARRATOR))
As election day nears, Jimmy Carter continues to receive hospice care in his modest home on the edge of his hometown, not far from the preserved Depression-era farm where his story began 100 years ago.
((Kane Farabaugh, VOA News, Plains, Georgia.))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
Subtitles / Dubbing AvailableNo
NetworkVOA
Embargo DateOctober 22, 2024 09:57 EDT
BylineKane Farabaugh
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
