Hillary Clinton hits the campaign trail once again on Thursday after trying to put aside a badly handled health scare that rattled her bid for the United States presidency.
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All of these polls include some data from this weekend and will reinforce Democratic fears that reaction to Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment or her illness (or her campaign’s failure to disclose said illness) is giving Trump a broad-based “surge”. And it led to an acknowledgment by the Clinton campaign that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
“I just talked to her – she’s feeling great and I think she’ll be back out there tomorrow”, former USA president Bill Clinton said yesterday.
News of Trump’s appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show” – though it appeared to reveal little detail – had earlier flooded the U.S. airwaves on Wednesday, upping the pressure on Clinton to share more health data before returning to the trail Thursday with appearances in North Carolina and Washington. It says Clinton got a chest scan Friday that showed a “mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia”.
Clinton has been off the campaign trail since then, but is expected to return this week. On Wednesday morning, his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told CNN that Trump would not be releasing full medical records on the Dr Oz Show – and later another aid said this did “not necessarily” mean that he had changed his mind about publishing them.
Clinton released the health update hours after rival Donald Trump taped an interview, set to air Thursday, on The Dr. Oz Show where he shared the results of his own physical with controversial television Dr. Mehmet Oz. If they sound familiar, it could be because she’s lodged those very attacks on him throughout the campaign.
Donald Trump recently issued a statement in Canton, Ohio Wednesday that he is doubtful Hillary Clinton would have the stamina to lead one of his events.
Clinton’s blood pressure was 100/70 during her physical, which is normal, along with a heart rate of 70, respiratory rate of 18, temperature of 97.8 and pulse oximetry of 99 percent. Sixty-three percent of voter ssay Clinton is level-headed and 69 percent of voters say Trump is not. The letter did not state when she received those vaccines. Clinton also takes Coumadin, a blood thinner prescribed to her after she suffered a concussion in 2012, which caused her to spend a few days in the hospital and take a month off from her post as Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton’s physician, Dr. Bardack wrote the diagnosis in a letter published on the Democratic nominee’s official site. She has also had a normal mammogram and breast ultrasound, according to the letter. In stark contrast, Donald Trump is hands down the least transparent presidential nominee in memory.
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“It’s nearly like a political shortcut”, he said, “a strategy of, ‘Nope you’re guilty too, let’s move to the next question.'” Early in her campaign, Clinton and her allies highlighted Trump’s most controversial comments to paint him as too crass for the job. Clinton has released her tax records. The letter says Kaine is in “overall excellent health”, has never smoked and has “modest” alcohol use.
