Hillary Clinton’s doctor on Wednesday declared her healthy and said she is “recovering well” from pneumonia and remains “fit to serve as President of the United States”.
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Hillary Clinton says she will put out more medical records “very shortly” and that she’s worked hard to be more transparent than her Republican rival Donald Trump. She was scheduled to attend a rally in North Carolina and then speak at a dinner in Washington.
As you read this, pollsters are preparing to release surveys conducted over the past weekend and its immediate aftermath, when Hillary Clinton made her accurate but perhaps poorly phrased comment about Donald Trump’s “deplorable” fans, then almost passed out at a 9/11 memorial service in NY before revealing she had been trying to “power through” a case of walking pneumonia. Trump’s campaign has not made a copy of the summary public ahead of the airing, nor is it certain he will do so after. This allowed the media to start reporting on rumors about her health, which had previously been the province of the right-wing fever swamps from which Trump has drawn much of his support and campaign staff.
Top Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri said “one upside” of Clinton’s unplanned break was the chance to “sharpen the final argument Clinton will present to voters in these closing weeks”. As we all know, she didn’t take that advice, and became dizzy and dehydrated at a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday.
But Trump’s 7-point lead in the Lyceum poll is a relatively slender advantage.
National polling averages also show Mrs Clinton’s lead dropping from 6.8 percentage points this time last month to the current 1.8 percentage points.
Battleground states such as OH and Florida are no longer considered likely wins for the Democratic nominee, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released on Saturday.
White voters seem to be giving Mr Trump the edge in both states, while Mrs Clinton still has overwhelming support from non-white voters. The growth rate past year was about 2 percent. “I don’t think so, I don’t think so”.
Earlier on Thursday, the Post noted that Trump refused to say whether he believes Obama was born in Hawaii.
She was talking about the white nationalist and alt-right faction of Trump’s supporters to which Trump has given little objection and a bonanza of publicity.
Clinton has spent the past three days out of the public eye, recuperating at her suburban NY home.
Clinton also used the speech as an opportunity to criticize Trump.
For Clinton, 56 percent of those surveyed say she thinks she can play by different rules from everybody else.
Questions about the health of both candidates have been at the forefront of the campaign in recent days, after Ms Clinton was caught on camera struggling to walk as she left a 9/11 memorial event in NY on Sunday. Last week, she discussed her religious faith in Kansas City, Missouri.
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“It’s great to be back on the campaign trail”. A fortnight ago, Clintoni’s lead was 10 per cent. In forecasts from FiveThirtyEight, Clinton is projected to have a 62.3 percent chance of winning the election.
