“During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment, and is feeling much better”, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement.
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Her doctor said Ms Clinton had become overheated and dehydrated at the event in lower Manhattan. She was helped into the van.
Asked if the health of the candidates was an issue, Trump said: “I think it’s an issue”.
Mrs Clinton was taken ill on Sunday at a 9/11 memorial ceremony and cancelled a campaign trip to California.
However the real estate mogul, known for his relentless and personal attacks, brushed off questions from reporters about Clinton’s health on Sunday. But the high humidity caused it to feel much hotter in the crowd at times.
The pneumonia disclosure was made public hours after her campaign said she had become “overheated” to explain why, knees buckling and unsteady, she was rushed from a ceremony marking the September 11, 2001, attacks in NY.
The Clinton campaign has been refuting allegations that her health is failing and has criticised Trump for “parroting lies” based on fabricated documents as he had said at an election rally that Clinton “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS”.
In December 2012, Clinton, 68, suffered a concussion and shortly afterward developed a blood clot. He gave no further details about her condition.
The Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project released on Saturday shows Trump has caught up to Clinton’s level of support in several states, including Florida and Ohio.
Clinton was at a fundraiser on Friday when she said that she would put “half of Trump’s supporters” into “the basket of deplorables”. The remark, for which she later expressed “regret”, had suddenly united a Republican Party that has struggled to get behind its divisive nominee, it said.
Last week, Clinton had an extensive coughing fit during a Labor Day rally in Cleveland, making it hard for her to speak for about two minutes. She then resumed her speech.
But the episode fueled speculation from conservative political quarters about her health.
Trump’s move is likely to increase pressure on Clinton to release more information about her health.
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Neither candidate has released a more complete medical report, though Trump recent told ABC News that he would do so. On Fox, he said that being elected to the White House means: “You’re the president of all the people”. “How can she be president of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?”, he said in a statement. I can see it happening right now because everybody was saying ‘he was soft on Trump, ‘ and now the new person is going to try and be really hard on Trump just to show the establishment what he can do.
