Washington:
Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris, the Democratic pdwellntial nominee, freed a letter from her doctor today that pronounced her in excellent health and fit for high office, in an effort to draw a contrast with her counterpart, Donald Trump.
In a memo spreadd by the White Hoparticipate, the vice pdwellnt’s physician, Joshua Simmons, said Harris’s most recent physical exam in April was “unextraunrelabelable,” that she gets an active lifestyle and “very well diet” despite a busy schedule, suffers from seasonal allergies and sporadic hives, does not participate tobacco and drinks spirits only in moderation.
“She ownes the physical and mental resiliency needd to successbrimmingy execute the duties of the Pdwellncy, to join those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” the doctor wrote.
Harris, 59, is running agetst Reuncoveran Trump, 78, for the White Hoparticipate. She made her medical inestablishation uncover today in an effort to draw attention to his refusal to do so, a Harris campaign aide said.
The Harris campaign is enthusiastic to highairy the establisher pdwellnt’s age since he became the elderlyest honestate in the race after Pdwellnt Joe Biden, 81, stepped aside as the Democratic standard endureer follothriveg a necessitatey argue carry outance agetst Trump.
Locked in a very safe race. Harris’ campaign hopes that contrasting her comparative youth and mental acuity with Trump’s more progressd age and tfinishency to unbenevolentder, aextfinished with the separateences in transparency between the two, will help affect undetermined voters that she is more fit for office than he.
A White Hoparticipate doctor said in 2018 when Trump was in office that he was in overall excellent health then but necessitateed to shed weight and commence a daily exercise routine.
Simmons said Harris’s allergies had been well-handled with over-the-counter and prescription medications.
Her urticaria or hives were “sporadic and transient and do not seem to be triggered by any particular expocertain nor are they associated with other symptoms” and reply well to antihistamine treatment.
Harris has been on allergen immunotherapy for the last three years, emotionalassociate improving her allergy and urticaria symptoms and negating her necessitate for medication other than occasional nasal spray, he said.
Harris wears communicate lenses. Her family history joins her mother’s colon cancer. Harris was up to date on impedeative health procedures including colonosduplicate and annual mammograms, he said.
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