Hillary Clinton leaves 9/11 ceremony early after feeling unwell

Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates were set to attend a Sunday ceremony in NY marking the 15th anniversary of the deadly September 11 terror strikes, and neither nominee has scheduled campaign events for the day.

“I’m feeling great, it’s a attractive day in New York”, Clinton said.

Political strategists said the campaign should confront the health issue head-on to tamp down any concerns, particularly as Republican rival Donald Trump and some of his high-profile supporters have repeatedly argued that she lacked the “stamina” to battle adversaries overseas.

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton arrived separately at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan this morning to pay their respects on the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

It’s an accusation that Clinton has sought to play off as a “wacky strategy” from Trump and evidence that he embraces an “alternative reality”.

“Those are people we have to understand and empathise with as well”, she said. “Without examining, without having the history. you don’t have a basis to say anything”.

Lisa Bardack, MD, the personal physician for Mrs Clinton since 2001, releases a healthcare statement which reveals her patient to be a “healthy 67-year-old female”. Speaking generally and not about Clinton’s case, Schaffner said patients with a mild pneumonia can recover with antibiotics, a few days of rest and good hydration.

A campaign aide said Clinton had been examined at her home in Chappaqua, New York, after she was forced to leave Ground Zero.

Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comments have drawn immediate comparisons to Mitt Romney’s 2012 line about 47% of Americans on government dole supporting Barack Obama and Mr Obama’s 2008 characterisation of downtrodden Pennsylvanians as clinging to guns and religion.

Republican rival Donald Trump has spent months questioning Clinton’s health, saying she lacks the stamina to be president. Despite Trump’s numerous missteps, the race remains close and many Americans view Clinton as untrustworthy. He said that ideally, presidential nominees should allow an independent panel to assess their health.

Clinton went on to say that some of these people were “irredeemable” and “not America”.

A presidential candidate is at high risk for such an infection, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University. At the NY restaurant, Clinton bemoaned the people she described as “deplorables”, saying “unfortunately there are people like that”. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. “We shouldn’t be judging people based on their age, but based on their ideas”.

Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, cited the speech in attempting to clarify the Democratic nominee’s comments Friday night.

Clinton was said to have cancelled the plan because she had been suffering from pneumonia since Friday.

On Friday, Clinton, who has said she is the candidate to unify a divided country, said Trump’s supporters were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”.

As senator for NY in 2001, she campaigned heavily for better health care for the victims of the attacks and for rescue personnel who worked tirelessly amid the rubble and toxic air at Ground Zero. She required assistance from two Secret Service agents to get into her van. A stomach virus and dehydration prompted her to faint, causing what her doctor said was a concussion.

In a campaign podcast last month, Clinton said she does yoga and walks on the treadmill to stay fit.

Trump slammed the remarks as “INSULTING”, “disgraceful”, a “grotesque attack on American voters”, and “the worst mistake of the political season”.

Clinton’s public day began when she arrived at the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan.

Asked last week if she was concerned about “conspiracy theories” related to her health, Clinton said she wasn’t. “If she wants to do it, I’ll do it 100 percent”, he said.