The Democratic nominee said she did not disclose pneumonia diagnosis immediately because she did not “think it was going to be that big a deal”.
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“Something is going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we’ll be seeing her at the debate” in two weeks, the Republican told Fox News.
The poll of 1,910 responses shows a lack of trust in the presidential candidate, a worrying sign for her campaign with just two weeks to go before the first presidential debate in NY and two months until the election.
Asked whether she had fainted at the NY event, Mrs Clinton replied: “No, I didn’t. I feel great”, he said. I felt overheated. I decided I did need to leave as soon as I got into the air-conditioned van I cooled off, I got some water and very quickly I felt better so I felt fine but I’m now taking my doctors advice which was given to me on Friday which I ignored to just take some time to get over pneumonia completely.
However, Trump, who shared even less information about his own medical details than Clinton did, was also bogged down in controversy surrounding his brief medical report that stated that Trump would be the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
Her comments came as her campaign scrambled to head off lasting damage from a hard weekend. Yet the public is entitled to evaluate the health of a potential President, and the lack of candor is corroding whatever trust Americans still put in her. Mrs. Clinton has a moment to come clean, and she should allow independent physicians to inspect her medical records. Several hours later, her doctor acknowledged she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier.
They said it was Mrs Clinton’s decision to attend weekend fundraisers and the Sunday ceremony in lower Manhattan, despite the diagnosis of pneumonia.
Clinton spent Monday at her home in Chappaqua, New York, after canceling a fundraising trip in California.
Clinton last visited San Francisco back in June, when she held a luncheon with special guests Jaime Lee Curtis and Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards.
The incident – captured on amateur video – gave her Republican rival Donald Trump, 70, a new opening to question her fitness for the nation´s highest office as the race heats up with eight weeks until Election Day.
He did hammer Clinton for her assertion Friday night that half of his supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” and are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.
“You can not run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter”, he said at a rally in Asheville, North Carolina.
After a staff shake-up in August, Trump has largely abandoned the free-wheeling style of campaigning that energized his supporters but also led to an endless string of controversial comments about women, minorities and others.
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The celebrity businessman talked through the scuffle and said after the disturbance: “Is there any place more fun than a Trump rally?”
