“Yeah, just about the same age as Ronald Regan and Hillary is a year behind me”, Trump responded. Her illness became public after she left Sunday’s 9/11 memorial service in NY early and was seen on video staggering while getting into a van.
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There are just 54 days to go until election day, on November 8. Meanwhile, a CBS News/New York Times poll released Thursday shows the candidates tied at 42 percent nationally.
Both candidates, among the oldest ever to run for the White House, have been under intense pressure to share more medical information.
Clinton plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after several days resting at her suburban NY home.
“She has spent the day catching up on reading briefings, making calls, and she watched President Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on TV”, Clinton Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill told CNN.
It was really only a matter of time before Donald Trump shed the guise of concerned statesman and returned to form by mocking Hillary Clinton for her pneumonia-related fainting spell last weekend. “We want her on the campaign trail”. But she’s taking antibiotics and is on the mend.
The letter detailed her pneumonia diagnosis and declared her fit for the presidency.
The campaign said she had a chest scan on Friday that showed a “mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia”.
Clinton has been recuperating at her home in Chappaqua, New York, according to her campaign.
She was asked to comment on former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s hacked emails that showed him saying: “Everything HRC touches, she kind of screws up with hubris”.
“Mrs. Clinton has been seen by me this year for routine care”, Clinton’s physician, Dr. Bardack, wrote in the letter published on the Democratic nominee’s official site. She has had a normal mammogram and breast ultrasound.
Thetwo-page single-spaced letter reveals more details about Clinton’s health in an effort to dispel rumors and insinuations that her medical problems are more severe than a treatable case of pneumonia.
The blood clot, which was in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear, led Clinton to spend a few days in New York-Presbyterian Hospital and take a month-long absence from the State Department for treatment.
“I’ll never be the showman my opponent is, and that’s okay with me”, she said.
Donald Trump is gaining on Hillary Clinton in a new poll, and Clinton’s lead shrinks even more when the field expands to four candidates.
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The exam also reportedly showed Mr Trump has high levels of testosterone, the hormone which affects sex drive as well as physical characteristics such as muscle mass.
