Joe Biden pays tribute to ‘remarkable leader’ and ‘dear friend’ Jimmy Carter - as it happened

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The former Georgia house of representatives minority leader Stacey Abrams called Carter a giant who never saw anyone as smaller than himself" in a post on X.

Whether at a Boys & Girls Club banquet or when he sponsored a medical clinic for the uninsured in his corner of rural Georgia, he lived James 2:17 each day," she said. Jimmy Carter built homes, saved lives and tended to souls. God bless President Carter, may the family he and Mrs. Carter raised know only comfort in these days of grief."