Trump tries to repurpose Clinton's attacks against her

"They are deplorable", he added, "but the vast majority of Trump's supporters are not".

Hillary Clinton says the success of a deal for a cease fire in war-torn Syria is largely "up to the Russians". "Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it". "And unfortunately there are people like that". He later said he had written the letter in five minutes as a limousine sent by the candidate idled outside.

"I think it's a great tactic that's misapplied", he said.

Last week Hillary Clinton made a claim that over half of Trump's supporters belonged in a "basket of deplorables".

The Trump statement pointed to a 2007 Clinton campaign memo in which chief strategist Mark Penn said Obama had a "lack of American roots" and not "fundamentally American in his thinking and values" as proof of Clinton's role in the birther movement. "That is a matter of public record. None of this is a mystery".

It's been a bumpy few days for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign bandwagon. "As the world knows, I was a little under the weather recently", Clinton said.

Finally, I think Trump is benefitting from a growing disconnect between media and political elites in NY and Washington and most white voters over issues of race. "They do not represent the values of our nation and Hillary does us a service by naming it and shaming it".

Tim Kaine recalled Donald Trump decrying immigrants, many from Mexico, as rapists and criminals.

Trump says that he remains opposed to abortion rights.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who chaired Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, said the Democratic nominee's comments pale in comparison to Trump's. Trump has not publicly expressed that sentiment himself. And now everybody who doesn't want him to be president is trying to figure out why - and whether he's going to keep gaining. "She continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States". He said: "We treat everybody exactly the same, so there's no disincentive to hire women rather than men". "Not just on guns, but on race, immigration and more".

There is no doubt that there were better options for the Trump Campaign CEO than Bannon, but the Trump campaign has simply become a natural landing place for the alt-right. Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence referenced the comments during his speech in D.C.at the anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit, saying they "should be denounced in the strongest possible terms".

The Republican nominee, meanwhile, handed over a one-page summary of a recent physical exam to the celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz while taping an episode of Oz's talk show.

Clinton fell ill at the ceremony, and needed the help of staff to stand up as she waited to depart the event. Trump still has some of his fire (i.e., claiming that Putin- a notorious authoritarian- is a better leader than President Obama).

Obama says, "We've got so many other things to do".

Charles Moran, a gay Los Angeles-based Republican activist and Trump supporter pledged to him at the Republican National Convention, said he was "shocked but not surprised" over Clinton's comments.

The Republican nominee said Thursday morning in an interview on Fox News Channel that the Rev. Faith Green Timmons "was like a nervous mess" when she introduced him. "Her disdain for how half of this country feels about her shows the typical liberal smugness". It totally runs counter to her efforts to reach out to disaffected independents and Republicans. Her campaign later acknowledged that Clinton had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

Rival Donald Trump is expected to make public more information about his health on Thursday.

She said: "Even I had to admit maybe some rest would do me good". I'm not in the name-calling business, Wolf. It's a popular schoolyard tactic for the GOP nominee, a political game of "I know you are, but what am I?"

If the 70-year-old Trump wins the November 8 election, he would be the oldest to be elected USA president, while Clinton would be the second oldest.

"The bigger question is why isn't Trump being called out for all the high-profile deplorable people he's aligned with?"

He said: "I guess that's a form of exercise?" However, even these figures aired a word of caution saying that not condemning David Duke is a mistake.

In a call with reporters Thursday, John Podesta cited a report in Newsweek about the Trump organization's foreign ties. And data show his voters are hostile toward black, Latino, Muslim and LGBT people. Another wore a homemade shirt that read, "I'm with deplorable".

Clinton's controversial remarks come as polls show a race in which she once enjoyed a significant lead is now tightening.

But it is Trump who has suggested Hillary Clinton does not have the strength and stamina to be president.