Following the criticism, the Clinton campaign has vowed to release more medical records in the coming days. In a statement released by the campaign eight hours after the incident, Bardack said the 68-year-old Clinton “became overheated and dehydrated” at the 9/11 ceremony. “The pneumonia is the extent of it”, Clinton’s spokesman Fallon told MSNBC.
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The Clinton campaign said Monday it would release more information about her health this week, after pressure grew since she was helped into a van Sunday. Fallon said there is “no other undisclosed condition” affecting her.
Mr. Biden said the Democratic nominee’s bout with pneumonia is not a big concern.
Mrs Clinton scrapped a two-day fundraising swing through California scheduled for Monday and Tuesday (local time), and she may be sidelined for a third day.
Newt Gingrich, speaking at an event in Kennesaw, says the video Sunday takes it from rumors to a legitimate national question. “I think it’s time he met the same level of disclosure that I have for years”, Clinton told Cooper.
The incident gave her rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation’s highest office.
On Monday, the Republican presidential nominee wished her a speedy recovery.
Hillary Clinton is expected to be back on the campaign trail as soon as Wednesday. Both Clinton and Trump have said they meant to release more of their medical details in the coming days. “The American people deserve to know what he is up to and what he is hiding”, she said. “We know a lot about Hillary Clinton”. The Trump supporter was not ejected by security.
Trump, meanwhile, continued to criticize Clinton for saying – before her health episode – that half of his supporters fall into a “basket of deplorables”. “You can’t say the same thing about Donald Trump”, she said. Clinton has expressed regret for the remarks, but Trump said, “I think this is the biggest mistake of the political season”.
“If you look at the way the last couple months have gone, it feels like the race should be further apart”, said Greg Haas, an Ohio-based Democratic strategist and former county party chairman.
“What happened (on Sunday) was that I just was incredibly committed to being at the memorial – as a senator on 9/11, this is incredibly personal to me”. Aides provided no information about why she left or her whereabouts for almost two hours.
Ms Clinton suffered concussion in 2012 following the flu and had vision problems for a several weeks afterwards, her two-page medical letter revealed in July. And late today, she tweeted: “I’m feeling fine and getting better”.
“It’s a handsome day in NY”, she yelled to reporters across the street.
After resting at her daughter’s nearby apartment, Clinton left for her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., after first telling onlookers she felt great.
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“People get pneumonia all the time”, Republican Senator Roger Wicker of MS said in an interview with the Politico news blog, adding, “It is absolutely a natural impulse of her staff to dissemble and lie, and it is just astounding”.
