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Hillary Clinton says feeling much better, didn’t think it was big deal

In addition to trying to calm jittery voters with this interview, Bill Clinton is stepping in for his pneumonia-plagued wife at tomorrow’s pricey fundraisers set for Seth MacFarlane and Barry Diller’s homes, campaign sources confirm to Deadline. “And she’s worked like a demon, as you know, as Secretary of State, as a senator, and in the year since”.

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Clinton appeared wobbly and stumbled Sunday as she left a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in NY. But she felt immediately better after getting into her air-conditioned vehicle.

Clinton’s health scare after she nearly collapsed at an event on Sunday, causing her to cancel some campaign trips, revived concerns about a tendency toward secrecy that has dogged her campaign, and underscored perennial worries about the medical fitness of candidates for one of the world’s most demanding jobs. Her campaign later revealed she’d been diagnosed Friday with pneumonia – a disclosure that fueled arguments that the Democratic nominee isn’t sufficiently forthcoming about important details. “You know, it’s really past time for him to be held to the same standard – not just as me, but of everybody else who has sought this job”.

Rose asked if Clinton might stay off the campaign trail for weeks.

At the time, roughly 90 minutes passed before aides said Clinton left because she was overheated. Late Sunday evening, she canceled a California campaign swing scheduled for early this week.

With Mrs. Clinton sidelined by health issues, Mr. Trump is projecting an image of endurance – stacking up campaign events, vowing to release results from a recent physical and delivering an aggressive defense of his supporters.

Clinton staff claimed the White House hopeful had been “dehydrated”.

But Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis is hardly Earth-shattering. Clinton will likely be no exception. Clinton’s doctor, Lisa R. Barback, later came to her home and conducted an examination. Clinton’s doctors prescribed antibiotics, which suggests she doesn’t have viral pneumonia – otherwise she would have been put on antiviral medicines. They include high fever, shaking, chills, a persistent cough with phlegm, shortness of breath, chest pain while breathing or coughing and suddenly feeling worse after a cold or flu.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Former President Bill Clinton react as balloons fall during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 28, 2016.

Before elite donors at a glitzy fundraiser on Friday, Hillary Clinton managed to insult millions of Americans by arguing that half of Donald Trump’s supporters are deplorable individuals animated by racist, sexist, homophobic and other warped ways of thinking.

Clinton’s near-fainting “will catapult questions about her health from the ranks of conservative conspiracy theory to perhaps the central debate in the presidential race over the coming days”, Chris Cillizza wrote in The Washington Post.

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As for concerns that this illness will somehow affect her ability to campaign and govern as USA president, that’s completely unfounded. The American people deserve to know what he’s up to and what he is hiding.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks with reporters following a National Security Working Session at the New York Historical Society Library on Sept. 9 2016