Harris remembered the late president's "humility, modesty and grace" in a speech at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.

President Carter previously told his son that he hoped he would live long enough to vote for Harris in the 2024 presidential election

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak.