Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has been recovering from pneumonia at home after abruptly leaving a September 11 commemoration ceremony in NY on Sunday, where her campaign said she became overheated and dehydrated.
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If Hillary Clinton loses a presidential election she was once heavily favored to win, the events of last weekend seem likely to be a major reason.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton drew strong criticism after she classified “half” of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” during a campaign event last Friday.
“I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal”, she said of the pneumonia diagnosis she received Friday.
“So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible”, she said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will appear on the Dr Oz television show to discuss his health, and he’s promised to release more details as his rival Hillary Clinton comes under fire for her own health concerns.
Clinton said her doctor said to rest for five days, but she “didn’t follow that very wise advice”.
Clinton continued: “What happened yesterday was that I just was incredibly committed to being at the memorial”.
O’Reilly wouldn’t comment on whether the remarks revealed insight into how Clinton feels about certain parts of the population, saying, “I’m not a psychologist”. In a Monday interview on Fox News, Trump said the health of the two major candidates was “an issue”.
“I’m feeling fine and getting better”, Clinton personally tweeted on Monday.
Asked whether she had fainted at the NY event, Mrs Clinton replied: “No, I didn’t”.
Fallon said Clinton was not contagious and “it was her intent to press on and not let pneumonia affect her”. Both campaigns are now promising to release additional medical records.
“I think that in retrospect, we could have handled it better in terms of providing more information more quickly”, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told MSNBC earlier in the day. One of President Obama’s must trusted advisors, David Axelrod, used Twitter to admonish Obama’s would-be successor: “Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia”.
Clinton’s evening interview, in which she promised to release more information at some point, came as her campaign scrambled to head off lasting damage from a hard weekend.
“Oh my goodness, Anderson, compare everything you know about me with my opponent”, Clinton added. Clinton canceled her public schedule for Monday.
‘I’ll be releasing very, very specific numbers, ‘ the 70-year-old magnate said of his medical exam.
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The incident reinvigorated questions about Mrs. Clinton’s heath that have dogged the former secretary of state for months, including speculation that she is hiding a serous medical condition.
