Greg Abbott sent condolences to Jimmy Carter’s wife – who had been dead a year Texas governor mocked for tweet about former president directed at Rosalynn Carter, who died in November 2023.
Abbott’s statement sent “prayers and deepest condolences” to former first lady Rosalynn Carter and the rest of her family shortly after her husband’s death at the age of 100, as the Dallas news station WFAA reported.
The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, mistakenly offered his condolences to Jimmy Carter’s dead wife shortly after the Democratic former president died on Sunday.
Both versions of Abbott’s statement were otherwise effusive about Jimmy Carter, who was US president from 1977 to 1981 and won the 2002 Nobel peace prize for his work seeking peaceful resolutions to global conflicts, advancing human rights and democracy, and promoting economic and social development.
A couple of hours passed before Abbott’s office distributed an amended statement about Jimmy Carter’s death that removed the reference to his late wife of 77 years, as the Houston Press noted.
