US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she boards Air Drive Two from Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday.
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Vice President Harris on Saturday launched a medical report, a doc that her marketing campaign will use to attempt to attract one other distinction with former President Donald Trump.
That is the primary time Harris, 59, has launched a medical report. Much like reviews launched by earlier commanders-in-chief, the two-page letter from Dr. Joshua Simmons, her White Home Medical Unit doctor since Jan. 2021, says that Harris is in wonderful well being and has “the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
Listed below are a few of the highlights from Harris’ medical report:
- Harris has seasonal allergic reactions and has been on allergen immunotherapy to cut back her signs. She sometimes makes use of Atrovent however has by no means skilled extreme signs, angioedema or anaphylaxis, her physician stated.
- She is nearsighted and wears contacts, however can learn comfortably with out contacts or glasses.
- Her most up-to-date bodily examination was in April 2024. She is up-to-date on preventive care like colonoscopy and annual mammograms. She takes a Vitamin D3 complement.
- She is at low danger for atherosclerotic heart problems.
- She works out every day and eats wholesome; doesn’t smoke and drinks solely sometimes and carefully.
This medical disclosure come as Harris and Trump appear locked in a tie, lower than a month earlier than Election Day — every on the lookout for methods to shake up the race and win over the small variety of undecided or persuadable voters in swing states.
By releasing the data, the marketing campaign will underscore the truth that Trump has not, a senior marketing campaign aide instructed reporters, talking on situation of anonymity forward of the doc’s launch.
Harris’ marketing campaign will elevate questions on whether or not, Trump, 78, is as much as the job, and level to rambling and disjointed speeches and unwillingness to debate as indicators that he has slipped.
Trump in Nov. 2023 launched a three-paragraph letter from a physician about his well being. It stated Trump’s “overall health is excellent” and that his “cognitive exams were exceptional.”
Trump’s well being has been a topic of hypothesis since he first launched a brief assertion as a candidate in 2015 that stated he can be “the healthiest individual ever elected” to the workplace — a letter that his then-doctor later stated that Trump himself had dictated. The veracity of subsequentreports have been additionally broadly questioned.
When President Biden, 81, was nonetheless operating for a second time period, Trump’s age and acuity got here below much less scrutiny whereas Biden’s stumbles, mumbles and errors drew headlines and have become his best political legal responsibility with voters. After he was seemingly overwhelmed throughout his June debate with Trump, Biden was pressured by his get together to bow out and go the torch to a youthful chief.
