| | | | Clinton: I 'didn't think it was going to be that big a deal' | | Hillary Clinton is at home recuperating from pneumonia -- but called in for an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, explaining that she didn't reveal her doctor's diagnosis on Friday because "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal."
Clinton, of course, was knocked off the campaign trail after stumbling on her way into her van after a 9/11 memorial Sunday morning. She told Cooper she ignored her doctor's advice. "I was supposed to rest five days -- that's what they told me on Friday -- and I didn't follow that very wise advice," Clinton said. "So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible."
Her campaign is regrouping -- promising to release more medical records in the coming days as aides try to move past a damaging weekend. (Donald Trump says he'll do the same and plans to release the results of a physical exam that took place last week.)
How Clinton's camp will try to pivot: They'll demand more records -- medical history, tax returns and more -- from Trump, arguing that he's flouted all modern standards of transparency, and it's unfair to scrutinize Clinton without applying the same expectations to Trump.
This has happened before? Here's Bill Clinton (who says Hillary Clinton is "doing fine" now) in an interview with Charlie Rose aired on CBS this evening: "Rarely, on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing's happened to her when she got severely dehydrated, and she's worked like a demon, as you know, as secretary of state, as a senator, and in the years since."
Hillary Clinton's explanation to Cooper, who pressed her on how often the episodes Bill Clinton described have happened: "I think really only twice that I can recall. You know, it is something that has occurred a few times over the course of my life, and I'm aware of it, and usually can avoid it."
The blind quote of the day, from someone in Clinton's orbit to Politico's Glenn Thrush and Brianna Ehley: "She won't drink water, and you try telling Hillary Clinton she has to drink water."
Trump showed restraint -- as did his staff, which largely stayed off social media. "I really just don't know. I hope she gets well soon," Trump told Fox News, adding later, "Something is going on but I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail, and we'll be seeing her at the debate."
This is the no-transparency election, setting new lows in the modern era, writes CNN's Stephen Collinson.
Presidential health secrets: John F. Kennedy had Addison's disease. Woodrow Wilson had a stroke. And Grover Cleveland had a cancerous tumor removed from his mouth aboard a friend's yacht. A history lesson on hidden presidential illnesses from The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach and Lillian Cunningham. | | | David Axelrod, the former Barack Obama strategist (and now a CNN senior political commentator), raised eyebrows with this Monday morning criticism of Hillary Clinton: | | | It elicited this praise from Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's campaign manager... | | | ...And this retort from Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's communications director: | | Trump foundation donations face new questions | | The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold -- who has held Donald Trump's feet to the fire on donations to veterans' groups and taking credit for others' charitable gifts -- now reports that Trump's foundation lists making at least five contributions that never actually happened.
"Tens of millions of dollars" -- that's what Mike Pence told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told Fahrenthold, that Trump has given over the years. The problem? Hicks "offered no details about that number, beyond saying that it included donations from the Donald J. Trump Foundation -- a charity which, despite its name, has been filled almost entirely with other people's money in recent years. Hicks also provided no information about how much -- if any -- of the donations she was describing had come from Trump's own pocket." | | Pence won't call Duke 'deplorable,' but disavows support | | Donald Trump running mate Mike Pence's refusal to slap the word "deplorable" on former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, a Trump supporter. "I'm not in the name-calling business," Pence told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, while at the same time repeating Trump's disavowal of Duke's support.
The brush-off appeared to be Pence trying to avoid a sound bite of himself using the word he was blasting Hillary Clinton for using to describe half of Trump's supporters. But Clinton's camp quickly pounced, tweeting: | | | Pence attacked Clinton's comment at a Friday night fundraiser that half of Trump's supporters are a "basket of deplorables" -- including racists and sexists. Clinton has apologized for using the word "half," but not for her overall sentiment. "Did she walk it back? She said she regretted saying half. So what was it -- 40%?" Pence said. | | Senate roundup: Uber in Nevada; Indiana tightens | | Nevada's Uber battle: Americans for Prosperity's Nevada chapter is out with mailers and a digital ad -- all first in Nightcap -- hitting Democratic Senate hopeful Catherine Cortez Masto for driving Uber out of the state after taking $70,000 in campaign contributions from taxi companies.
Indiana race tightens: Evan Bayh's massive lead in Indiana appears to have evaporated. A Howey Politics Indiana/WTHR poll has him leading Republican Todd Young in the Senate race just 44% to 40%. (Compare that to a July poll the DSCC was touting, showing Bayh up 21 points.) The development won't surprise Republicans despite Bayh's huge name ID and cash edge: He's been seen as vulnerable on Obamacare (he retired before dealing with his support for it at the ballot box), he's stumbled over his residency, and Mitch McConnell and the US Chamber of Commerce have backed Young heavily. And, new today: George W. Bush will campaign for Young.
Pennsylvania strategy shift: McConnell's group will move its dollars from heavily Republican areas of the state to urban regions with more moderate voters in its bid to boost Sen. Pat Toomey's re-election effort, The Hill's Reid Wilson and Jonathan Swan report. | | | A man attending Donald Trump's rally in North Carolina grabbed a protester by the neck and appeared to punch him in the face. ... Ted Cruz is condemning athletes' refusal to stand for the national anthem. ... Trump's transition operation is building out policy teams. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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