“The staff acknowledged that they should have, on Friday, just straight up said she’s been diagnosed with pneumonia, and she should listen to her doctor, for God’s sake”, Biden said.
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Earnest deflected several questions Monday about whether both candidates were being forthcoming enough in releasing details about their health.
The illness has largely kept Clinton out of the public eye at a pivotal time during the fall election. “One candidate who’s traveled to more countries than any secretary of state ever has, has more qualifications than pretty much anyone who’s ever run for this job”, Obama said.
“If you had told me two years ago that I would be voting for Hillary Clinton, I would have said, ‘No freaking way, ‘” said Michael Sheehan, chief operating officer of a Columbus-based apparel firm. She knows that in a Democracy, in a big, diverse country like this one, it does not work if we just demonize each other and call each other names. Clinton developed a blood clot behind her right knee, prompting the White House doctor to recommend hospitalization and a week of bedrest.
According to the telephone-only poll of 1,002 Jews, conducted by the research company SSRS for the American Jewish Committee (AJC), Clinton is supported by 61 percent of Jewish voters, while Trump is supported by only 19 percent.
On Monday, Fallon assured that “there was nothing here in terms of anything that was caused by what happened in 2012”.
Clinton laughed when Rose asked if there’s any chance his wife would need to take weeks to rest from the campaign trail.
“It is hard and slow and sometimes frustrating to persuade people and work with people and form coalitions, but that is the necessary work of self government and that is what Hillary Clinton understands, because she has been through it”.
“So I think the President’s belief that she would be an excellent President of the United States is something that you have heard him say many times. She did not just succeed in that role, she thrived and the interests of the USA were well represented as a result of it”, Earnest told reporters at his daily news conference on Monday.
“I mean, he wasn’t going to let you on his golf course. But think about the fact that is Donald Trump’s role model, I mean I have to do business with Putin, I have to do business with Russian Federation but that is part of foreign policy”, Obama said.
The 68-year-old Clinton canceled West Coast events earlier this week. President Obama also campaigned for her today in Philadelphia. But it was not known if that was the source of Clinton’s infection.
Clinton’s Republican rival, Donald Trump, had been trying to make an issue of Clinton’s health before Sunday’s incident, saying she didn’t have the stamina to be president.
“Why isn’t President Obama working instead of campaigning for Hillary Clinton?”
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She is to return to the campaign trail on Thursday, her spokesman Nick Merrill said Tuesday evening.
