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Vice President Kamala Harris launched a report Saturday detailing her well being and medical historical past, because the Harris staff seeks to place former President Donald Trump’s well being and outdated age underneath new scrutiny.
Harris “stays in wonderful well being,” her doctor, Dr. Joshua Simmons, stated in a letter Saturday. “She possesses the bodily and psychological resilience essential to efficiently perform the duties of the presidency, together with these of Chief Government, Head of State and Commander in Chief.”
The physician identified seasonal allergy symptoms and hives (urticaria) as a “notable” a part of her well being historical past. He additionally listed a lot of over-the-counter medicines used to enhance her signs, which he stated have by no means been “severe.”
Simmons describes Harris’ most up-to-date bodily examination, which came about in April 2024. He stated the outcomes have been “unremarkable.” The physician additionally stated he discovered her routine blood assessments to be “unremarkable,” though he famous that her vitamin D ranges “have been inadequate.”
Simmons additionally famous that the vp has a household historical past of colon most cancers. He didn’t describe every other private historical past of a lot of circumstances.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion, Oct. 11, 2024, at Grayhawk Golf Membership in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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A senior Harris aide stated they see the discharge of the vp’s medical report as a gap to focus on how little is understood concerning the 78-year-old Trump’s well being.
The previous president refused to launch his medical information throughout his first marketing campaign in 2016, and regardless of promising a number of instances to launch his medical information throughout this race, he has but to take action. ABC Information has repeatedly requested his medical information.
Probably the most intensive particulars identified about Trump’s well being care come from an almost seven-year-old report from his physician on the time after a bodily examination. That report realized that Trump had excessive ldl cholesterol, was chubby and had rosacea, a benign pores and skin illness.
However previous to this new report, not a lot was identified about Harris’ well being both.
For instance, in contrast to President Joe Biden, whose physician has issued memos following his routine examinations, no such reviews have been made accessible to the vp. Solely her 2021 annual check-up was introduced by the White Home, however the outcomes of that go to weren’t launched.
The White Home additionally beforehand introduced that Harris examined constructive for COVID-19 in April 2022, for which she was handled with the drug Paxlovid.
Previous to the discharge of Harris’ medical report, ABC Information had additionally inquired concerning the information of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance, Harris and Trump’s working mates, respectively.
This new transfer by Harris is a transparent illustration of how the political baggage of outdated age has been reversed.
Earlier than he dropped out of the race for a second time period, Biden’s age was a simple battering ram for Trump and the Republicans. The previous president would assault his successor, America’s oldest president, as “sleepy Joe,” “sick” and “weak.” However now it’s Harris, who’s about 20 years youthful than Trump, and her allies who’re making the most of their opponent’s age.
Walz described Trump’s debate efficiency as “an virtually 80-year-old man shaking his fist on the clouds;” Former President Invoice Clinton joked throughout his speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference: “Two days in the past I turned 78… and the one private self-importance I wish to assert is that I am even youthful than Donald Trump.”
Hours earlier than the vice presidential debate earlier this month, the Harris marketing campaign launched a brand new advert focusing on Trump, who, if he wins, could be the oldest particular person to be elected president over Vance.
“Not solely is he bizarre or harmful,” a narrator says of Vance, “he may very well be only a heartbeat away from the Oval Workplace.” The advert ends with clips of the previous president showing to slur his phrases.
ABC Information’ Katherine Faulders, Soorin Kim, Isabella Murray, Hannah De mission, Lalee Ibssa and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
