Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly raised questions about his rival’s health and whether she has the energy to serve as president – however, he made no comment about her diagnosis on Sunday. Clinton later said she regretted applying that description to “half” of Trump’s backers, but stuck by her assertion that the GOP nominee has given a platform to “hateful views and voices”.
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Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at 92 anni, she became an iconic figure in the conservative movement for her battles against feminists in the 1970’s, and her fight to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment. Neither Clinton or Trump have released anything approaching that level of detail.
Republican strategist Art Hackney of Alaska, who chaired former President George W. Bush’s campaigns there, doubted today’s health scare will fade away quickly, saying that the Trump campaign “will milk it”.
When we wake up on November 9, wondering whether Mr. Trump will wear the fake tan to his inauguration, remember that Clinton, like Marie and one at before her, said that from the perspective of the elite, The people can eat cake if they have no bread.
The former secretary of state said she believes the threats facing the country are not limited to ISIS but rather are part of a larger struggle against “a violent ideology – a form of violent jihadism”.
“I also meant what I said last night about empathy, and the very real challenges we face as a country where so many people have been left out and left behind”, she said.
Full Statement: Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen. Her campaign said that she felt overheated during the ceremony and then departed to her daughter’s apartment. Dr. Harold Bornstein’s report last December remains the only medical information released so far by the Trump campaign.
“Hillary Clinton just had her 47% moment”, Trump tweeted.
The Democratic nominee later said she regretted her remarks at an LGBT fundraiser in NY.
Unlikely previous presidential candidates, both Clinton and Trump have opted not to travel with what’s known as the “protective pool” – a small group of journalists that follow the candidate everywhere. While 57 percent say they are voting “for” their candidate, 41 percent are turning out to vote “against” a candidate. While people are increasingly vulnerable to illness as they age past 70, there are also better medical treatments than ever before.
She described the rest of his supporters as people who are looking for change in any form because of economic anxiety and urged her supporters to empathise with them.
Mrs. Clinton’s speech at a campaign rally earlier this month in Cleveland was interrupted by a coughing spell.
Clinton’s letter of health was almost two pages long and had standard lab results, while Trump’s was a few paragraphs with few details. She drank water and took a lozenge at the podium, going on to finish her remarks.
The Chinese, she said, have been “awfully leaky”.
Trump has gotten a late start in organizing in the battleground states and appears to be well behind Clinton in this aspect of the campaign.
In December, Dr. Harold Borenstein issued a one-page statement asserting that Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
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He did not mention Clinton’s health, however.
