Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who returns to campaign on Thursday – after a three-day break due to illness – armed with a doctor’s certificate that she is fit to be the USA president even as new polls showed that the gap between Ms. Clinton and her Republican Party rival Donald Trump had narrowed. Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump has also long questioned whether she has the stamina to be an able commander-in-chief.
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The Republican Party’s presidential nominee appeared on The Dr Oz Show for what his campaign described as a chat about his general well-being and his family’s medical history.
Hillary Clinton’s doctor says the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is “recovering well” from pneumonia and remains “fit to serve as president of the United States”.
Clinton received a 10-day course of antibiotics, and since Sunday has rested at her home in Chappaqua, New York, where she “continues to improve”, Bardack’s letter said. Her doctor has pointedly said that she had no other issues aside from hypothyroidism, for which she also takes medication, and seasonal allergies.
The former secretary of state’s campaign on Wednesday revealed details of the medical checkup and described her pneumonia diagnosis last Friday, a few days after which she became ill at a Ground Zero commemoration ceremony for the 9/11 attacks. She had a CT scan of her brain and sinuses in March that revealed “no abnormalities of the brain”, she wrote.
Clinton’s aides said she would return to the campaign trail on Thursday. She has also had a normal mammogram and breast ultrasound, according to the letter. Her blood pressure is 100/70, her cholesterol is 189 (LDL 103, HDL 56), for those keeping score at home.
Clinton herself has played down her illness.
The candidate now takes thyroid and allergy medicines as well as the blood thinner Coumadin, which was initially prescribed as a preventative measure after she suffered a blood clot following a concussion in 2012. Clinton who will turn 69 next month will be the second oldest.
Clinton plans to return to the campaign trail on Thursday after several days resting at her suburban NY home.
In a move to jump-start momentum, Clinton’s campaign announced on Thursday that US Senators Elizabeth Warren of MA and Bernie Sanders of Vermont will campaign for her on Saturday in the battleground state of Ohio.
A Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton losing her lead to Donald Trump in battleground OH, after a rough campaign stretch in which she faced criticism for demeaning Trump supporters as well as renewed speculation about her health. “It’s a insane time we live in, you know, when people think there’s something unusual about getting the flu”.
The rest of the physical exam “was normal and she is in excellent mental condition”, Bardarck said in a letter to the media, saying that she examined Clinton several times this week.
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It said Kaine is active in his work and physical fitness. And so, on Wednesday, Clinton released more of her medical records to reassure the public that she’s literally fit for the presidency – and not the ailing invalid of the (thoroughly unsubstantiated) narrative that her opponent and many of his supporters perpetuate. Bornstein later said the letter took him only five minutes to write.
