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Hillary Clinton ‘recovering well’ from pneumonia and ‘fit to serve as president’

A new daily tracking poll released Thursday has Republican presidential nominee up six points over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

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The poll carried out by the New York Times and CBS News revealed the former Secretary of State has a 2 point advantage (46 to 44 percent) over the New York businessman in terms of voting intention, a number within the research’s error margin.

“Welcome back to ‘Stronger Together, ‘” Clinton told reporters aboard her campaign airplane before she set off to North Carolina.

But on Thursday Mrs Clinton walked on to the stage of a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, to the sound of James Brown’s “I Feel Good”. Less than two months from Election Day, that has contributed to a race that is tighter than many expected.

The same poll had Trump leading Clinton by just half a percentage point on August 20: 44.2 to 43.6 percent. Her campaign had initially said that her episode was due to becoming overheated and dehydrated, but later announced that the candidate had been diagnosed with pneumonia days earlier.

Clinton was taken ill Sunday during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in NY where she was seen stumbling limp-legged into her vehicle, an episode that raised tough questions about her campaign’s transparency. Those are her first public appearance since Sunday, when she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service in NY after becoming dizzy and dehydrated.

The two-page note details her illness – the impact of which was captured on video by a bystander as an unsteady Clinton was hoisted into a van after she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service – the medication and her health in general.

A separate Quinnipiac University also showed that the race between Clinton and Trump has tightened significantly in recent weeks.

“He called her a ‘nervous mess, ‘” Clinton said.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the Economic Club of New York, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in New York.

The letter from Clinton’s doctor made no mention of her weight, a key part of any medical exam, nor did a similar letter released a year ago.

He added, “It’s the definition of ‘damned by faint praise, ‘ a presidential contest where a vote for a candidate is less an endorsement of that candidate than a stinging rejection of his or her opponent”.

But Clinton gets high marks for experience and level-headedness.

The 70-year-old has blood pressure of 116 over 70, blood sugar level of 99 and a calcium score of 98 as of 2013, which was also the year of his last colonoscopy, the doctor wrote.

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The survey found Trump and Clinton locked at 42 percent among likely voters nationwide in a four-way race with Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein included.

Real Clear Politics