Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. Carter’s remains, which had been lying in repose at the Carter Presidential Center since Saturday,

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