Joe Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to pay tribute

President Biden says former President Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver condolences at his funeral when he died.

Mr. Carter, 98, entered hospice care in Plains, Georgia in February and is spending his last days visiting friends and family.

“I spent some time with Jimmy Carter and finally caught up with him, but I found a breakthrough and they found a way to keep him around much longer than expected,” California. “He asked me to give a condolence address.”

Biden then backed off a bit, adding, “Sorry, I shouldn’t say that.”

Carter is the longest-lived US president. It’s unclear when Biden spoke to him, but White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently said that Biden and Carter were friends who had built a bond “for decades.” Stated.

Mr. Biden, a first-term senator from Delaware, broke away from the Northeast establishment and endorsed Mr. Carter for president in 1976.