At their news conference in the shadow of Trump Tower, the Illinois Democrats wanted to talk about voter registration, but most of the questions focused on Clinton’s health and the two-days-late announcement of her treatment for pneumonia. Clinton said. “I’ll be lucky to hold her back another day”.
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Immediately, many on the right clamored to say that Clinton’s diagnosis should disqualify her from the race.
As family members of 9/11 victims read the names of the almost 3,000 people killed in the attacks, she chose to leave and get a drink of water. Bacterial pneumonia is common and easily treated with antibiotics. “She had a good night’s sleep she’s doing fine”, he said.
“I think the transparency issue with Hillary Clinton in particular, but both candidates is: What is their instinct?”
Question: I’m sure some here agree with Hillary Clinton’s statement about Donald Trump’s supporters. “She will need to release medical records before the first debate”, Matt Mackowiak, a top Republican strategist and president of Potomac Strategy Group, told Business Insider in an email. Her campaign later announced that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
After she arrived, however, “I could feel how hot and humid it was”, she said.
Clinton has so far released more details about her health than Trump.
Around the same time Mrs Clinton was tweeting that she was ready to return to campaigning, her team acknowledged that she would not attend her scheduled campaign event on Wednesday in Nevada. I want her to get out there. “I’m like you. I just see what I see – the coughing fit was a week ago, so I assume that was pneumonia also”, Trump said on Fox News.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told MSNBC the campaign would release more medical information in the coming week.
“We could have done better yesterday, but it is a fact that public knows more about HRC than any nominee in history”, said Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palemieri.
“And she had two-and-a-half hard days before the day when she got dizzy”.
Will Hillary Clinton’s near collapse during Sunday’s 9/11 memorial ceremonies make her health a political Achilles’ heel?
The disease is what caused Clinton to leave a 9/11 remembrance ceremony in New York Sunday. “What I can do is point you to what Senator Obama did when he was running for this office and what President Obama has done while serving in this office”, Earnest added. A campaign swing through California on Monday and Tuesday US time has been cancelled. “But then again, so is Donald Trump and by the way we know nothing about his health”.
The decision to make additional disclosures came as the campaign has come under a new round of scrutiny for a lack of transparency following Clinton’s abrupt, stumbling departure from a commemoration Sunday of the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, said that based on the available information, “this should not in any way impede her function going forward”.
