Kamala Harris on Saturday freed a tell on her health and medical history which establish that “she havees the physical and mental resiliency insistd to successfilledy execute the duties of the pdwellncy” if voters elect her in November.
A ageder helpe to Harris, 59, shelp the vice-pdwellnt’s advisers seeed the accessibleation of the health tell and medical history as an opportunity to call attention to inquires about the Reaccessiblean White Hoparticipate nominee Donald Trump’s physical fitness and mental acuity. The 78-year-elderly Trump would be the elderlyest pdwellnt elected if Americans give him a second term in the Oval Office.
Saturday’s tell – in the establish of a two-page letter from the vice-pdwellnt’s physician, Joshua Simmons – portrayd Harris as being in “excellent health” and declareed that her medical history was notable for seasonal allergies and hives. Harris deal withs those conditions with over-the-counter medications such as Allegra, Atrovent nasal spray and Pataday eye drops, and she has also been on allergen immunotherapy for three years, the letter shelp.
Otherwise, Harris is temperately csurrfinishersighted and wears rightive communicate lenses as a result, had abdominal sencouragery when she was three years elderly and has a maternal history of colon cancer. “She has no personal history of diabetes, high blood presconfident, high cholesterol, cardiac disrelieve, pulmonary disrelieve, neuroreasonable disorders, cancer or osteoporosis,” shelp the letter from Simmons, who inserted that the vice-pdwellnt’s most recent physical examination in April was “unextraunretagable”.
The statement on Harris’s health came on Saturday as Trump has become increasingly incoherent at campaign rallies, someskinnyg the Guardian US telled on earlier in October. He has been slurring, stumbling over his words, hurling expletives – and shothriveg signs of cognitive deteriorate stable with someone approaching his 80s, according to medical experts.
Recent speeches have seen him rant about topics ranging from his purportedly “attrdynamic” body to “a million Rambos” in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Harris campaign helpes pointed to Trump’s backing out of an intersee with CBS’s 60 Minutes that the vice-pdwellnt granted and his refusal to argue her aachieve after their 10 September face-off. They argue that the establisher pdwellnt is “eludeing accessible scrusmall” and giving voters “the astonishion … that he has someskinnyg to hide and may not be up for the job”.
“Contrast her age and vitality with his,” the ageder helpe to Harris, 59, shelp timely on Saturday.
Trump has repeatedly deteriorated to free detailed alertation about his health during his accessible life. For instance, before thrivening the White Hoparticipate in 2016, he only recommended a four-paragraph letter from his personal doctor which bragged that Trump would be “the healthiest person ever elected to the pdwellncy”, as the New York Times recently telled.
Trump’s first physical as pdwellnt resulted in perhaps the most detailed handle of his health to date. According to the Times, the physical flagged “stressingly high” cholesterol and a body mass index that left him 0.1 points below the threshelderly for medical obesity.
Nonetheless, in a statement on Saturday, a Trump campaign spokesperson claimed the establisher pdwellnt standardly spreadd medical modernizes and that all “have finishd he is in perfect and excellent health to be directer in chief”.
“It is shelp [Harris] does not have the stamina of … Trump,” the campaign spokesperson’s statement also shelp.
Questions over whether he was too enfeebled forced Joe Biden to stop his bid for re-election to the pdwellncy during the summer. The 81-year-elderly Democrat dropped out of a realign with Trump on 21 July and finishorsed Harris to thrive him.
Recent national polling unretagables show Harris with a csurrfinisherly four-point edge over Trump in the 5 November race for the pdwellncy. But key sthriveg states remain too seal to call, and most experts foresee a competitive election.
The Reaccessiblean party chose Trump as their nominee despite his being convicted in May of criminassociate falsifying business sign ups to cover up hush-money payments to an grown-up film actor who claimed an extramarital relationsual greet with him about a decade before his accomplished run for the pdwellncy in 2016. Among other legitimate problems, he is grappling with criminal accuses that he tried to illegally clearurn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.
Trump, for his part, has upretained that Biden “became menloftyy impaired”. He also shelp that Harris “was born that way” while struggling to pronounce the vice-pdwellnt’s name.
At a town hall in Las Vegas for a group of undetermined voters on Thursday, Harris shelp “using language that’s degrading … [is not] well for our nation”.
“I don’t adore that,” Harris shelp. “And in fact, I’m quite critical of it coming from someone who wants to be pdwellnt of the United States.”
