Carter called the United States “an oligarchy.”“People are tired of hearing that he was a better ex-president than president,” said DuBose Porter, a former Georgia Democratic chairman who has known the Carters for decades.
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter carved an unlikely path to the White House in 1976 and endured humbling defeat after one term. Learn more about Carter… Carter touts his own personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, another Trump favorite. Buttigieg, 37, wasn’t even born when Carter left office.Nonetheless, Klobuchar said she regularly meets Iowans who remember Carter and his family members campaigning in 1975 before his rivals and national media recognized his strength. “I have his email address,” Carter said in September.Whatever the reasons for the renewed attention, Carter allies say they hope the 2020 campaign is part of bolstering his reputation as a president.ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter carved an unlikely path to the White House in 1976 and endured humbling defeat after one term. “He signs them ‘JC,’” she said with a laugh.Klobuchar recalled Carter telling her that “family members would disperse to different states and then they would all come back on Friday, go back through the questions they had gotten.” Then “he would talk about how he would answer them” so they’d all be prepared on their next trips, she said.A peanut farmer turned politician then worldwide humanitarian, Carter is taking on a special role as several Democratic candidates look to his family-run campaign after the Watergate scandal as the road map for toppling President Donald Trump in 2020. But those huddles have been more hush-hush, disclosed through aides dishing anonymously. That’s when the former host of the Colbert Report presented President Carter with a t-shirt which said “Carter 2020: Still Constitutionally Eligible.” That simple shirt quickly sparked a buzz on social media across the world. Jimmy Carter on a Presidential Age Limit and Almond vs. Peanut Butter.
https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-carter-donald-trump-election-2020-1460119 Both men said they had an amiable conversation.“An extraordinary person,” Buttigieg told reporters after meeting Carter. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, also have visited with the Carters and attended the former president’s Sunday School lesson in Plains.Carter had planned to teach at Maranatha Baptist Church again Sunday, but he is still recuperating at home days after hip replacement surgery following a fall as he was preparing for a turkey hunt.“Jimmy Carter is a decent, well-meaning person, someone who people are talking about again given the time that we are in,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said in an interview.
“A guiding light and inspiration,” Booker said in a statement. ... Jimmy Carter, the longest-living ... Democrats’ 2020 prospects and the relative merits of various nut products. We kept the peace.”Carter is enough of an enigma that he is the only living president not to draw Trump’s ire or mockery, even if Republicans have caricatured Carter for decades as a failure. “He won because he worked so hard, and he had a message of truth and honesty. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center) in Plains, Georgia, a hospital where his mother was employed as a registered nurse.Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital. The renaissance of Jimmy Carter and what it means for 2020 ... Ga. (population 776), to embrace the legacy of the town’s most famous resident: Jimmy Carter.