“Flashback” Jack Carter to Run for United States Senate from Nevada

Former President Jimmy Carter, left, is seen with his son Jack, right, during a campaign kickoff in Henderson, Nev., on Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Jack Carter announced Monday that he will run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate representing Nevada.

Reuters: Jimmy Carter’s son running for U.S. Senate

Democrat Jack Carter, 58, the son of former President Jimmy Carter formally announced a run for the U.S. Senate on Monday in his first bid for elected office.

With his parents sharing a stage in the Nevada capital, Carter invoked many of the same themes his father used to rise from relative obscurity to win the Democratic nomination in 1976 and go on to become president.

“All we need is a return to our core American values and new leadership,” Carter said as his father smiled broadly and applauded with a receptive crowd of several hundred people. He criticized the Bush administration’s invasion of
Iraq as well as its domestic spying and drug prescription programs.

One of four children, Democrat Jack Carter was active in his father’s 1976 campaign for president but has devoted his professional life to business. He lived in Bermuda as an investor before moving to Nevada three years ago.

Carter is seeking to unseat Nevada’s junior Sen. John Ensign, a Republican who grew up in the state, but polls suggest newcomer Carter faces an uphill battle.

With Carter’s former drug use and general discharge from the U.S. Navy it is doubtful that his candidacy will go very far.

Flap handicaps an easy win for John Ensign.

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