Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign has a new ad airing in North Carolina and three other battleground states that blasts Hillary Clinton for calling half of Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables”. Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate, has said she regrets the remarks.
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Trump, who has refused to apologize for any of his controversial comments, told a gathering of the National Guard Association that he was “deeply shocked and alarmed” by Clinton’s comments, saying insulted them and other working-class Americans with her comments that half of his supporters fell in the “basket of deplorables”, describing them as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”.
Mr Trump wished her a speedy recovery and said he would release the results of a medical examination he took over the past week, with “very, very specific numbers”.
The issue also put pressure on both Clinton and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, to reassure American voters about their health, given the rigors of the presidential campaign, in which the food is often unhealthy, sleep is elusive and the packed schedule and extensive travel is stressful. Neither Clinton nor Trump has released anything approaching that level of detail.
In 2008, Republican nominee John McCain made public more than a thousand pages of his medical history to show he was cancer-free and fit to serve as president at age 71.
Trump’s gastroenterologist, Dr. Harold Bornstein, wrote a four-paragraph letter claiming Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. “So something’s going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her at the debate”. “Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate because I think the system is being rigged so it’s gonna be a very unfair debate, and I can see it happening right now because everyone’s saying that he was soft on Trump”.
Mr Trump, 70, and Mrs Clinton, 68, are among the oldest USA presidential candidates in history.
But aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky, of the University of IL at Chicago, said Sunday that age alone shouldn’t be a disqualifier for presidential candidates. “They are concerned and loving citizens”, he said at one point. “We shouldn’t be judging people based on their age, but based on their ideas”. She said she suffers from seasonal allergies and had increased her dosage of antihistamines. The pneumonia incident brought up some familiar concerns about Clinton’s penchant for secrecy which has fueled a debate about her use of a private email server while she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Democratic donor and fundraiser Bill Bartmann fielded calls from about half a dozen Democrats anxious about how Clinton’s health episode would look. TRUMP’S HEALTH Trump is expected to discuss his own health regimen in an interview to air on Thursday with celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz.
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“There are so many of them”, she said, “I’ve lost track of them”.
