“I tried to power through it but even I have to admit, some rest would do me good”, Clinton said during a rally in North Carolina.
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He added, “It’s the definition of ‘damned by faint praise, ‘ a presidential contest where a vote for a candidate is less an endorsement of that candidate than a stinging rejection of his or her opponent”.
Testing that shows no evidence of plaque building up in her arteries “is all very reassuring”, he said. It was a speech where “optics” mattered at least as much as what she said.
The rally marked Clinton’s first public appearance since Sunday, when she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service after getting dizzy and dehydrated.
According to the poll, more than half of voters on both sides of the aisle believe that their prospective candidate has released enough of their medical records (53 percent of Clinton voters, 52 percent of Trump voters) but want the respective candidate to release more information.
“With two months to go until election day, sitting at home is the last place I wanted to be”, she added.
As the health and fitness of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump take center stage this week, it’s important to take stock of what exactly we know about the candidates’ health.
Mr Trump’s team took a swipe at Mrs Clinton’s brief absence from the campaign trail in a statement accompanying the new health information.
The disclosure came as the media-savvy Trump, 70, teased new health data of his own during the taping of a medical chat show, before publishing it Thursday in full.
The health episode fueled long-simmering conservative conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and provided a fresh line of attack for rival Donald Trump, who has frequently questioned whether Clinton has the stamina to serve as commander in chief.
The other doctor whose word we can take for Trump’s fitness is Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, who wrote a letter late a year ago praising the candidate’s lab test results as “astonishingly excellent” and stating “unequivocally” that Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”.
Clinton’s confidence in the electoral map was underscored in her decision to make her first stop this week in North Carolina, the only battleground state President Barack Obama lost in 2012. Those are her first public appearance since Sunday, when she abruptly left a 9/11 memorial service in NY after becoming dizzy and dehydrated.
After Clinton was taken from the NY ceremony to her daughter, Chelsea’s Manhattan apartment her physician squashed claims that the presidential candidate was suffering from something serious.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta has been reaching out to Republicans who have defected, to strengthen ties for support.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Trump delivered a speech in NY in which he vowed to boost the nation’s economy by at least 3.5 percent – well above current projections – and create 25 million new jobs over a decade.
The heart of Trump’s plan is a revised tax code, which includes a pledge that no business should pay more than 15 percent of its income in taxes, down from the current 35 percent top corporate tax rate. The letter stated that Mrs Clinton was diagnosed with “a mild non-contagious bacterial pneumonia” last Friday and “treated with antibiotics for pneumonia and advised to rest”.
Clinton, 68, had been resting at her home in Chappaqua, New York, for three days after being diagnosed with pneumonia and falling ill at a September 11 memorial ceremony on Sunday.
“Welcome back to ‘Stronger Together, ‘” the Democratic nominee quipped cheerily to reporters on board her campaign plane. Video credit: Zdenek Gazda.
According to the results, Trump maintains normal cholesterol levels and blood pressure. The letter did not state when she received those vaccines. Her letter made no mention of her weight, a key part of a medical exam; nor did a similar letter released past year. Trump said in a phone interview Thursday interview with “Fox and Friends” that he is 6-foot-3 and 236 pounds _ giving him a body mass index falling into the “overweight” range.
Trump backers on Capitol Hill said they were heartened by the tightening race after a call on Thursday morning with his campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who mapped out what the campaign was doing.
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Clinton later declined to directly answer whether she had immediately told her running mate, Sen. The letter said Kaine has never smoked and his alcohol use is “modest”.
