Clinton’s campaign said the Democratic presidential nominee left the 9/11 anniversary ceremony in NY early after feeling “overheated”.
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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. “So 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”.
When asked about her husband Bill Clinton’s comments on her “fainting” in the past, she said: “I think really only twice, that I can recall. I feel great”, he said. “But I got in, once I could sit down, once I could cool off, once I got some water, I immediately started feeling better”.
“You can’t be at the single biggest event in the country and collapse and not have people asking questions”, added Gingrich, who was a presidential candidate.
Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 that she felt dizzy and ‘did lose my balance, ‘ while waiting for the motorcade. Hillary Clinton reassured her supporters that she’s on the mend after being diagnosed with pneumonia and leaving a 9/11 memorial ceremony early.
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.
“I think that in retrospect we could have handled it better in terms of providing more information more quickly”, Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon told MSNBC.
Clinton’s campaign is also running a sophisticated voter targeting and turnout operation, led by several people involved in President Barack Obama’s winning campaigns, while Trump is banking on the Republican National Committee for his field operations. “And she’s worked like a demon, as you know, as Secretary of State, as a senator, and in the year since”.
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. Trump, 70, has been suggesting for weeks that Clinton lacks the energy needed to be president. “And, obviously, that did not work out so well”, she said.
Asked if she passed out during the incident on Sunday, she said: “No, I didn’t”.
This comes as the right-wing blogosphere is awash in rumor and speculation about the state of Hillary Clinton’s health.
“Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia”, Axelrod tweeted later.
Speaking in Maryland Monday, Trump said he was shocked to hear Clinton “attack, slander, smear and demean these wonderful, awesome people who are supporting our campaign”. “What’s the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?”
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He said that “on more than one occasion” over the years “the same sort of thing’s happened to her when she got severely dehydrated”. “And my daughter lives nearby, so I went over to her apartment and, you know, spent time with her and my grandchildren which is the best medicine for anything in life”, she said.
