Hillary Clinton returned to campaigning without offering apologies for keeping her pneumonia a secret, focusing on criticizing opponent Donald Trump instead of how she handled her health problem and the three-day rest ordered by her doctor.
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“My great economists don’t want me to say this but I think we can do better than that”, Trump said of the 4 percent goal, an idea originally championed by Jeb Bush, who was among the 16 Republican candidates Trump defeated for the nomination.
Clinton was taken ill Sunday during a 9/11 memorial ceremony in NY where she was seen stumbling limp-legged into her vehicle, an episode that raised tough questions about her campaign’s transparency.
News of Trump’s appearance on “The Dr. Oz Show” – though it appeared to reveal little detail – had earlier flooded the U.S. airwaves on Wednesday, upping the pressure on Clinton to share more health data before returning to the trail Thursday (Friday in Manila) with appearances in North Carolina and Washington.
The 70-year-old businessman also discussed his health with Dr Mehmet Oz during a taped episode of the medical chat show, which aired on Thursday.
The 70-year-old is 1.90m tall, weighs 107kg, and his liver and thyroid functions are “all within the normal range”, his longtime doctor Harold Bornstein wrote in a one-page letter.
A spokesman for Trump’s running mate Mike Pence says the IN governor plans to release records from a recent physical examination as soon as his doctor compiles the information. A Suffolk University poll found Trump up three points over Clinton in Ohio-the third straight OH poll to find Trump leading.
The report came as Clinton hits the campaign trail once again after trying to put aside a badly handled health scare that rattled her bid for the United States presidency.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the Economic Club of New York, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in New York.
Clinton, meanwhile, slammed the brash billionaire, who has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his “alarming closeness with the Kremlin”.
Clinton’s strong lead over Trump in most opinion polls after the party-nominating conventions in July narrowed throughout August.
Clinton, the Democratic nominee, has the support of 46 percent of likely voters nationwide, to 44 percent for Trump, the Republican, including those who said they were leaning toward a candidate. Two of them show Trump ahead of Clinton, one shows the two candidates tied, and other has Clinton ahead. In the recent NY Times/CBS national poll, 26 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 plan to vote for Johnson and ten percent back Stein.
Overall, just 43 percent of likely voters describe themselves as very enthusiastic about casting a ballot in November.
The race has focused on both candidates’ state of health and medical records in recent days.
As the Democrat recuperated at home in Chappaqua, New York earlier this week, her campaign released a detailed health bulletin by her personal physician Lisa Bardack.
She then turned to Trump saying he failed at transparency.
Though senior aides knew about Clinton’s diagnosis, the delay in public disclosure fuelled criticism that she is prone to secrecy and fed unsubstantiated internet rumours that she is hiding a health issue.
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“Just a little bit public, that’s all”.
