Clinton said it’s infrequent and getting into the air-conditioned van helped her relax.
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Clinton had been seeking to bounce back from a blunder Friday, when she told donors that half of Trump’s supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables” – so Sunday’s episode was certainly ill-timed.
“She’s worked like a demon as you know as Secretary of State and as a Senator and in the years since”, he said.
Cooper asked her about her fainting spells in the past, including the concussion she sustained in December 2012, and how many times in the last five years something similar has happened.
“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”, the statement said.
“I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal”, she said of the pneumonia diagnosis she received Friday.
“She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule”. It was later revealed she had become dehydrated and was suffering from pneumonia.
He later described Clinton’s remarks at the Barbara Streisand fundraiser in NY as “shocking”.
Clinton’s evening interview, in which she promised to release more information at some point, came as her campaign scrambled to head off lasting damage from a hard weekend.
Trump, who is behind Clinton in the voter surveys but has narrowed her lead, wants to win the votes of the rural middle class who have lost ground economically due to globalization and industrial reconversion.
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.
Her schedule modification comes in the heat of a tightening race in the home stretch.
“I hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we’ll be seeing her in the debate”, Trump said Monday, looking forward to their first face-to-face meeting September 26.
Trump supporters have tried to make the case that Clinton, 68, is physically unfit for the White House.
The incident gave her rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation’s highest office.
The internet is awash with claims that she may have a brain tumor, Parkinson’s or dementia.
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In the interview, Bill Clinton insists his wife is “doing fine” and “just got dehydrated yesterday”.
