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Obama, Bill step in for pneumonia-hit Hillary
WASHINGTON: Former and current US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama join the campaign trail on Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, standing in for the Democratic
WASHINGTON: Former and current US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama join the campaign trail on Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, standing in for the Democratic White House hopeful while she recovers from pneumonia.
Clinton is set to return to the fray on Friday after several days of rest when she attends a Black Women’s Agenda symposium Friday in Washington, with less than eight weeks to go before the election, the campaign announced.
With Republican rival Donald Trump in striking distance in national polls and some battleground states, Clinton has suffered perhaps the worst week of her 15-month quest to become America’s first female president.
In the meantime, her husband Bill takes over for her in California, attending a fund-raiser in Los Angeles while his wife rests at their home in Chappaqua, New York per her doctor’s orders.
He also will campaign for her on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
She gets a further boost when Obama hits the campaign trail for her in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Facing intensifying scrutiny about her health, the Democrat will also release more medical records, as her team acknowledged it stumbled when it failed to alert the press and public about Clinton’s condition in a timely way over the weekend.
