Obama, meanwhile, made his 2016 solo debut in support of Hillary Clinton, hitting out at “unfair” criticism of the Democratic presidential nominee. “She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States”.
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Attention has been drawn to Clinton’s health after she was captured on video struggling to walk while leaving a 9/11 memorial event early.
Bill Clinton says Hillary Clinton is feeling great and should be back on the campaign trail Thursday even as he stands in for her at a Nevada rally.
Multiple recent polls have shown a closer fight between Clinton and Trump at both the national and state levels – most before Mrs. Clinton’s harsh characterization of Trump voters as “deplorables”.
A detailed letter about her treatment is going to be released by the campaign later on Wednesday – but the rest of her complete physical exam is said to be “normal”.
A war of words over Donald Trump’s “deplorables” is intensifying as Republicans and Democrats fight for political points over Hillary Clinton’s claim that numerous NY billionaire’s supporters are racist, sexist and homophobic. She also described a sinus and ear infection earlier this year. Trump said in a phone interview Thursday interview with “Fox and Friends” that he is 6-foot-3 and 236 pounds – giving him a body mass index falling into the “overweight” range.
The domain name basketofdeplorables.com was privately registered on September 10, the day after Clinton said “half” of Trump supporters could be labeled “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. “Those were all the tests that were just done last week”, Trump said in an excerpt released by the show.
Mrs Clinton had planned to campaign on Wednesday in Las Vegas. The incident has prompted further scrutiny of her health and her campaign’s transparency, and comes less than two months before Election Day and as polls show a tightening race.
Bennet Omalu, the doctor who inspired the film Concussion and discovered CTE, has advised Clinton’s campaign officials to perform a toxicologic analysis of her blood as he believes the presidential candidate could have been poisoned. Fifty percent of respondents said Clinton has given false information about her health to the public; just 37 percent said the same for Trump.
The former first lady has just suffered perhaps the worst week of her 15-month quest to become the first female USA president. He said: “I know personally, acutely”, how candidates who lost state primaries feel. Trump asked his audience in North Carolina. But in a tease, producers released a clip showing Trump pulling two letters from his suit pocket as the audience claps.
He said Melania Trump first entered the U.S.in 1996 as a visitor, and shortly after that was issued an H-1B work visa. Another attendee told NBC News that the report showed that he takes a statin to reduce cholesterol and that his blood pressure is good.
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“Instead, what he wants to do is project onto Hillary Clinton what his own policies project onto him, attempt to deflect, and then insult the entire African-American community by suggesting that we have allowed a party to take advantage of us”, Barber said of Trump.
