Barack Obama will leave the White House and appear solo at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
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“The pneumonia is the extent of it”, spokesman Brian Fallon told MSNBC a day after Clinton, 68, fell ill at a 9/11 memorial event in NY and her campaign announced she had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia Friday but the illness was not disclosed until Sunday after Clinton stood outside in warm, humid air for the memorial service and became dehydrated.
She said her campaign didn’t publicly reveal her diagnosis because “I just didn’t think it was going to be that big of deal”.
Clinton has said she regrets using the term, “half”, to describe the proportion of Trump supporters she considers “deplorables”. Clinton also said she would release more health information and argued she has been more transparent than Donald Trump.
“It’s just the kind of thing that if it happens to you and you’re a busy active person, you keep moving forward”, she said. “She divides people into baskets – as though they were objects, not human beings”, Mr. Trump said, adding that his supporters are “wonderful, awesome people”.
Hillary Clinton says she got dizzy but didn’t lose consciousness when she stumbled on the way out of the 9/11 memorial Sunday.
Washington Correspondent Failures to disclose information about Donald Trump’s taxes and Hillary Clinton’s health dominated debate for another day in the U.S. presidential race.
“Never in history has a major party presidential candidate so viciously demonized the American voter”, Trump told the crowd.
Mrs Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri said the candidate she did not see a need to tell people initially because she felt she was well enough to “power through”.
SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Well, Trump has really taken this and made it fit into the message of his campaign, and that’s the basic argument that Hillary Clinton looks down on all of Trump’s supporters.
When Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia late last week, she informed a handful of her closest advisers, but pressed on with a busy campaign schedule and did not inform the public that she was sick.
“She treats everyone with respect”, Obama said.
SEN. TIM KAINE (D), Vice Presidential Nominee: I have just been on the campaign since July 22. Last week, NBC’s Matt Lauer was criticized for asking tougher questions of Clinton than of Trump at NBC’s “commander-in-chief forum”.
A Donald Trump supporter upset with the vandals who’ve been stealing his campaign signs has rigged up a shocking surprise for future thieves.
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“I have said, to the best of my knowledge, nobody ever got anything from the State Department because they supported the Clinton Foundation”, he said.
