After his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton almost collapsed as she was leaving a 9/11 memorial event Sunday, her team revealed that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. “It’s about time I showed up and did it for her”.
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Daniel Scherb, a South Bend, Indiana, cardiologist interviewed by Reuters, who was not privy to Clinton’s medical records, said pneumonia can leave a patient “feeling blah for seven to 10 days” under the best of circumstances and, at worst, “people can die from it”.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.: USA presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to show their medical fitness for the White House as Clinton released a letter from her doctor declaring her fit for the presidency and Trump taped a TV-segment about his well-being.
Trump, 70, knows he could stand to lose a few pounds but otherwise is in great health, campaign adviser Sarah Huckabee Sanders told MSNBC on Wednesday after the Republican nominee taped an episode of the “Dr. Oz Show” in NY that will air on Thursday. Clinton was scheduled to make a fundraising swing to California, but will take a couple of days off from the campaign trail after being diagnosed with pneumonia.
Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary event Sunday in NY and was seen on video stumbling and being held up by aides.
“It’s a insane time we live in, you know, when people think there’s something unusual” about getting sick, he said. Tim Kaine, and her campaign manager, Robby Mook, declined to say when they first learned about her condition. Several hours later, her doctor acknowledged she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
Trump and his allies pounced on Clinton’s “deplorables” remark, but remained mostly disciplined and silent on Clinton’s health.
“I hope she gets well soon”, he said Monday on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends”. He wished her well and did not repeat questions he has previously raised about whether the former secretary of state has the strength and stamina to be president. “Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”, she said, before stressing that other Trump supporters are frustrated and need sympathy. She found that Clinton was “re-hydrating and recovering nicely”.
Speaking in Maryland Monday, Trump said he was shocked to hear Clinton “attack, slander, smear and demean these wonderful, fantastic people who are supporting our campaign”.
Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill says the Democratic nominee will resume normal campaign activities later this week. Clinton’s pneumonia symptoms began around the start of this month, and she saw Bardack on September 2 for a low-grade fever, congestion and fatigue.
To be sure, Clinton continues to have numerous advantages over Trump as the race presses into its final weeks. His path to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win in November is also narrow – he likely needs to carry Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina – while Clinton has numerous routes.
Hillary Clinton’s national lead over Donald Trump has narrowed by 2 percentage points over the last week, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll released Tuesday.
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“We know the least about Donald Trump of any candidate in recent American history”, Clinton said, adding that the public knows “virtually nothing about his business entanglements, his foreign investors”.
