With less than two months from Election Day, Clinton’s standing with Americans has contributed to a race that is tighter than both parties expected. On Sunday, at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, the former NY senator seemingly collapsed after leaving the event early.
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She said that while sitting at home this week was “pretty much the last place I wanted to be” the time helped clarify how she wants to end her campaign against Mr Trump.
Hoping to put the issue of her health behind her as she gets ready to return to the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton on Wednesday released an updated review of her physical fitness and details about a recent bout of pneumonia.
Until Thursday, the only information on Trump’s health had come in a widely ridiculed letter from his doctor declaring he would be the healthiest person to ever serve as president.
At a rally in OH on Wednesday, Mr Trump used Mrs Clinton’s recent health scare to cast doubt on her stamina.
“You think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?” Trump’s Thursday appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show” was billed by the campaign as a discussion about his general well-being and his family’s medical history.
And 45 percent of Trump voters said they are “very enthusiastic” about voting, while just 36 percent of Clinton supporters say the same.
He said he would “answer that question at the right time – I just don’t want to answer it yet”. Her campaign said later that she had been diagnosed with mild pneumonia on Friday.
In a move to jump-start momentum, Clinton’s campaign announced yesterday that US Senators Elizabeth Warren of MA and Bernie Sanders of Vermont will campaign for her tomorrow in the battleground state of Ohio. American likely voters say 62 – 38 percent that Clinton is qualified to be president and 61 – 38 percent that Republican candidate Donald Trump is not qualified. Likely voters are divided on Trump as 50 percent say he is honest enough to be president and 48 percent say he is not honest enough.
Likely voters also view Trump as more transparent than Clinton, 54 percent to 37 percent.
Clinton made no apologies for keeping her pneumonia diagnosis from the public until a video emerged showing her stumbling and being supported by aides.
“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 also released an additional two-page statement from Clinton’s longtime doctor on Wednesday stating that “she continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States”.
Clinton running mate Tim Kaine also released a letter from his doctor, Brian Monahan, the attending physician of Congress.
Clinton’s health was last detailed in a letter from Bardack released in July 2015.
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The documentation adds little to the previous health records she divulged a year ago, which stated that Clinton has low cholesterol and has seasonal allergies. The letter did not state when she received those vaccines.
