ROBERTS: Right. It has them very nervously beginning to whisper about find – having her step aside and finding another candidate.
Advertisement
This morning on NPR’s “Morning Edition”, journalist and author Cokie Roberts indicated that numerous establishment Democrats are getting antsy over renewed speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health.
Asked how Democrats were reacting to Clinton’s collapse at the 9/11 memorial ceremony Sunday, Roberts said that “people are angry at the lack of transparency”.
Critics want to know why following her apparent collapse as she was helped into a auto, it had not been revealed that she had some days before been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Clinton has said she’ll be resting for the first part of this week to recover from pneumonia, and returning to the campaign trail before the weekend.
Fowler said he expects Clinton to fully recover from her bout with pneumonia, which forced her to leave a September 11 memorial event early and cancel an early-week fundraising swing. Roberts opined that Trump “knew that at some point in the campaign schedule [Clinton] – like all candidates – would get exhausted”.
ROBERTS: I think it’s unlikely to be a real thing.
I don’t know if they’re necessarily thinking, “what if Hillary isn’t well”, they’re just thinking of a contingency plan if things go south. “I’m sure some of the Sanders people would want to get into play and some of the Biden people”.
“But they have looked at what happens in that circumstance, and the Democratic National Committee chair convenes the committee, and they vote”, Roberts said. He was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997 while Hillary Clinton’s husband Bill Clinton was in the White House. Now ironically, the candidate who everybody looks at is Joe Biden, who is older than Hillary Clinton.
We all know that a vice president steps in when a president must step down for health reasons, but that’s not the case for presidential candidates. But there is enough unhappiness that this kind of sotto voce stuff is going on.
Democratic insiders were “nervously beginning to whisper” about Clinton dropping out, according to journalist Cokie Roberts.
Advertisement
Her campaign team had earlier blamed “overheating” leading to her to be taken away and back to her daughter, Chelsea’s nearby apartment.
