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Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign trail after a weekend bout with pneumonia, but the episode left many Americans unsure about the state of her health, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Clintons physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, wrote Wednesday that the Democratic nominee continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States.

But just 39 percent of Americans currently believe that Clinton is in good enough physical condition to effectively serve as president for the next four years, according to the poll. A nearly equal 38 percent say she isnt in good enough condition, and 23 percent say they are unsure.

That marks a significant shift from just over a week ago, when an Economist/YouGov survey posing the same question found that 52 percent of Americans believed Clinton was in good enough shape, 33 percent didnt think she was and 16 percent didnt know.

By a 14-point margin, 45 percent to 31 percent, those surveyed in the latest poll which predated Bardacks letter said that Clinton had not provided enough information about her physical health.

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Republicans have long been willing to cast aspersions on Clintons health, but until recently, those attacks seemed to have little resonance beyond those already disinclined to vote for her.

The latest survey, however, shows increased uncertainty among some of her supporters.

Although 64 percent of Democrats said in the most recent poll that Clinton was in good enough condition, thats down 20 points from the previous survey. Few believe outright that she is unhealthy, but more now say that theyre not sure.

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In contrast, 63 percent currently believe GOP nominee Donald Trump is in good enough condition, almost unchanged from the 62 percent who said so earlier this month.

(The survey was also taken largely before Trumps interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz on Wednesday, in which he discussed his love for fast food and shared that he considered emphatic hand-waving a form of exercise.)

Even before Clinton stumbled while leaving a Sept. 11 commemoration event, she had long battled allegations from Trump and his surrogates that she was concealing a serious health problem. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), denounced such claims as idiotic.

Thirty-six percent of Americans say they believe Clintons illness last weekend was a symptom of a larger problem with her health. Twenty-seven percent say that it was an isolated incident, and 21 percent say that speculating about her health is inappropriate.

More broadly, 45 percent of Americans say that people are right to question whether Clinton may have a serious health condition, while 37 percent believe claims that shes seriously ill are driven purely by politics.

Opinions on both questions are divided deeply along partisan lines: 62 percent of Republicans, but just 13 percent of Democrats, believe that Clinton has a larger health issue. Three-quarters of Republicans view questioning Clintons health as valid, while 62 percent of Democrats see such questions as a nakedly political tactic. Independents fall somewhere in the middle 39 percent believe that Clinton is concealing a larger health problem and 46 percent say that people are right to raise questions.

Politicians health wasnt always believed to be a topic for public debate. In a 2004 survey conducted by Gallup for CNN and USA Today, 61 percent of Americans said that a president should have the same right as every other citizen to keep his medical records private, while just 38 percent believed a president should publicly release all medical information that might affect his ability to serve his term. That conviction was shared largely across party lines, with 57 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of independents saying that a president had the right to keep medical records private.

A similar question on the HuffPost/YouGov poll garnered very different results, underscoring the degree to which Republicans especially have seized on the issue, but also indicating a more widespread shift in expectations for transparency.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans said that a presidential candidate should publicly release all medical information that might affect his or her ability to serve his term as president, while just 34 percent believed that a presidential candidate should have the same right as every other citizen to keep his or her medical records private.

Democrats were about evenly split between the two positions, while large majorities of both Republicans and independents said they favored greater transparency. Similarly, 87 percent of Republicans, but a comparably small 52 percent of Democrats, said it was fair for the media to question a candidates health.

While its clear that concerns about Clintons health have become more prominent, its less certain to what extent those concerns will affect the race.

The most likely outcome, of course, is that Democrats and others who are inclined to vote for Mrs. Clinton will stick with her, political scientist Brendan Nyhan wrote Tuesday in The New York Times. He noted thatpast elections have shown that concerns about older candidates health came largely from voters who opposed them. However, a modern precedent does exist for serious concerns about a candidates age and health. Ronald Reagans meandering closing statement in the first presidential debate during the 1984 campaign was widely perceived to have harmed him.For Mrs. Clinton, then, the goal is to quickly reassure voters, as Mr. Reagan appeared to do back in 1984, that she is in good health.

One possible effect of an increased focus on the candidates health could be to raise the profile of their vice presidential nominees a prospect raised inadvertently by former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who said during a rally that Kaine was a wonderfully prepared person to be vice president, and to be the president if that ever became necessary.

On that measure, neither side holds much of an advantage. Thirty-two percent of Americans believe Kaine is qualified to serve as president, with 27 percent saying that he is not and 41 percent unsure. GOP pick Mike Pence fared almost identically, with 34 percent calling him qualified, 27 percent calling him unqualified and 40 percent not sure.

The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 1,000 completed interviews conducted Sept. 12-Sept. 14 among U.S. adults, using a sample selected from YouGovs opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.

The Huffington Post has teamed up with YouGov to conduct daily opinion polls.You can learn moreabout this project andtake partin YouGovs nationally representative opinion polling. Data from all HuffPost/YouGov polls can be foundhere. More details on the polls methodology are availablehere.

Most surveys report a margin of error that represents some, but not all, potential survey errors. YouGovs reports include a model-based margin of error, which rests on a specific set of statistical assumptions about the selected sample, rather than the standard methodology for random probability sampling. If these assumptions are wrong, the model-based margin of error may also be inaccurate.Click herefor a more detailed explanation of the model-based margin of error.

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This is picking up steam. Apparently, all secret service and local police are on standby and told she may fall any second.

During her speeches this week they have removed the stools after being called out for hiding her health.

The rumor is she is calling for the debates to be done while sitting down. They dont think she can stand for 15-30 minutes let alone 2+ hours.

Hillary Clinton has serious health problems. She needs stools and pillows at hand constantly. She wants to debate Trump sitting down. She may be wearing adult diapers as well as a catheter bag. She may have the onset of dementia. It appears she has recurring seizures. She needs long bathroom breaks. She needs a lot of rest.

Trump is getting 10x the people at his rallies that Hillary is getting at hers. Few like her. Most despise hereven progressives.

Therefore, shes probably making sure the polls are rigged. She will probably rig the election, too. After all, she likes rigging things in her favor. She had the DNC rig things in her favor and against Bernie. Lets see if she tries this tactic again. If the lying criminal traitor Hillary Clinton gets away with it, it may be time for a revolution.

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He did not apologize or speak to his own role in spreading the falsehood, which many people see as an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of America's first black president. Instead, Trump offered a curt admission tainted by yet another demonstrably false charge: that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 primary campaign "started" the racially charged smear.

Not exactly. The claim predates Trump's interest in promoting birtherism.

One of the first documented questions about Obama's provenance came in early 2007, when the right-wing Insight Magazine reported that researchers with ties to Clinton's campaign were trying to make hay over his schooling during the years he lived in Indonesia. The Clinton team denied this.

The rumor was that Obama attended a madrassa, or Muslim religious school. The connotation, at least at the time, would be that he had been educated in Islamist or radical anti-American ideology.

But even then, there was no suggestion Obama had been born outside the US.

There is no evidence that Clinton in 2007 or 2008 bolstered, supported or much less "started" the birther crusade.

And in recent years she has repeatedly blasted it, calling the movement "insidious" in a speech to supporters during an NAACP dinner in May. Last September, speaking to CNN's Don Lemon on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show," Clinton called the idea that she created the birther rumor "ludicrous."

"First of all," she added, "(the birther claims are) totally untrue. And secondly, you know, the President and I have never had any kind of confrontation like that."

Proponents of this allegation tend to point to a memo, written by Clinton pollster Mark Penn, and a conspiratorial email forwarded by a pair of campaign staffers in 2007.

He wrote: "I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."

However unsavory the sentiment, Penn, who is not working for Clinton's current campaign, did not at any point address Obama's birthplace.

Clinton never pursued Penn's notion as a line of attack. Later in the year, the campaign dismissed two staff members in Iowa who passed along an email that cast Obama as a Muslim agent bent on "destroying the US from the inside out."

CNN has attempted unsuccessfully to reach Asher for comment. He told his former employer, McClatchy, Friday that he met with Blumenthal in 2008, and that the newspaper chain dispatched a reporter to Kenya to investigate. Nothing came of it. He said there already had been stories published with the allegation before that meeting.

Some 2008 staffers told CNN that Blumenthal was not officially part of the Clinton campaign, and a CNN check of Federal Election Commission records shows no payment to Blumenthal from the campaign.

In 2007 and 2008, the birther conspiracy mostly took a backseat to another bogus tale -- one that suggested Obama, a Christian, was secretly a Muslim.

Clinton: "Of course not. I mean, that's, you know, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that."

Kroft: "And you said you'd take Senator Obama at his word that he's not a Muslim."

Clinton: "Right, right."

Kroft: "You don't believe that he's a Muslim or implying? Right?"

Clinton: "No. No. Why would I? No, there is nothing to base that on -- as far as I know."

Kroft: "It's just scurrilous --"

Clinton: "Look, I have been the target of so many ridiculous rumors that I have a great deal of sympathy for anybody who gets, you know, smeared with the kind of rumors that go on all the time."

But Clinton's use of five words -- "as far as I know" -- prompted outrage from many Obama supporters. Critics argued that they left the door open for unsavory innuendo.

Could Clinton have been more forceful in pushing back on the rumors? Yes.

Is there evidence that she or top campaign officials stoked the fire that Trump and assorted right wingers have openly and gleefully fueled in public for years? No.

Trump's decision to backtrack on the birther issue -- and pin it on Clinton -- is likely a campaign tactical move designed to improve his standing with moderate voters who might be susceptible to charges that Trump is racist.

The same survey found that 61% of Trump's own supporters did not subscribe to birther rumors, so the campaign likely considered that it had more to gain than to lose by dropping this as a wedge issue in his race against Clinton.

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One day after dropping his long-standing claim that President Obama was not born in the United States, a claim that fueled several conspiracy theories, Donald Trump has ignited two more.

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Now he says his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was behind the so-called birther movement.

And for the second time in the presidential campaign, Trump is again raising the specter of violence against Clinton, this time joking about disarming her Secret Service agents.

CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett reports that after enjoying a rise in the polls and a week in which he stuck mostly to the script, it seems Trump is back to the flash-bang style of politics his supporters have come to enjoy.

But there was blowback on Saturday after the Republican nominee made another ad-libbed reference to violence and reignited controversy with a popular sitting president.

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I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons, they should disarm, Trump said during a rally in Miami on Friday night.

Trump seemed to turn gun control into a threat against Clinton.

Take their guns away, Trump said. She doesnt want guns. Take their, lets see what happens to her.

This after a day spent walking back his refusal to admit that the nations first black president is an American-born citizen.

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President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period, Trump said Friday morning in Washington.

Trumps unwillingness a day earlier to make that same admission in a Washington Post interview gave new life to a conspiracy theory he has peddled since 2011.

Why doesnt he show his birth certificate? Trump said on The View.

You are not allowed to be a president if youre not born in this country, he told NBC News.

But Trump couldnt help but trade one fiction for a new legend.

Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy, Trump said Friday morning.

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Neither Clinton nor anyone on her 2008 campaign claimed then-Sen. Barack Obama was not born in the United States, though some Clinton supporters spread the idea through anonymous emails.

Its an issue even the president took a moment to address on Friday.

I was pretty confident about where I was born, Mr. Obama said in the Oval Office. I think most people were as well.

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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said Trump has moved beyond dogwhistle politics to the howls of wolves.

We will not elect a chief bigot of the United States of America, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.

Donald Trump is nothing more than a two-bit racial arsonist, who for decades has done nothing but fan the flames of bigotry and hatred, said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York.

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And his opponent wasted no time in holding Trump accountable for his years as myth-maker.

Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple, Clinton said at the Black Womens Agenda Symposium, and Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology.

The media attention on these latest controversies has taken focus away from an investigation into Trumps foundation by the New York attorney general, but all of this is likely to serve as material for Clinton at the first presidential debate on Sept. 26.

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After three days of resting at home, Hillary Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail for her first public appearance since her pneumonia diagnosis.

Today the Democratic presidential nominee who released additional medical information from her doctor Wednesday saying a recent physical was normal and she is in excellent mental condition will hold a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then attend the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute dinner in Washington, D.C.

Clinton gave a thumbs up as she boarded her flight this afternoon. Before take-off, she also made a brief visit to the back of the plane to say hello to the press traveling with her.

"Welcome back to 'Stronger Together,'" she exclaimed, referring to her campaign plane. "I'm doing great, thank you so much," she replied when asked how she's feeling.

Clinton did not take questions, but told reporters she would hold a press avail following her Greensboro event. Chatting casually, she then said she was disappointed the TV show "The Good Wife" had ended, but that she was excited for another one of her favorites series, "Madame Secretary," to begin again soon.

Clintons return to the trail is sure to come with additional scrutiny and questions regarding her overall health.

Donald Trump, who has thus far remained quiet about his opponents recent diagnosis, has questioned Clintons health and stamina throughout the campaign. And his campaign is unlikely to let up.

Why in the world did Hillary Clinton lie to everyone and conceal such an important fact for two days, saying she was overheated and dehydrated and then, of course, hours and hours later after, unfortunately, her health became the biggest trending story of the day, not the 9/11 fallen, why wait all those hours? Trumps campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said during an interview on MSNBC this week.

If this is about transparency and medical records and health conditions, then why was she so furtive in the business of concealing here? Conway added.

Earlier this week Trump had stayed mum about Clinton's health, saying he hopes she recovers. But last night at a rally in Ohio, he said she was lying in bed and questioned her stamina, saying, I dont know folks. You think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?

On Sunday, Clinton, 68, left early from a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, where she was seen struggling to walk as she was assisted by aides into her van.

Her campaign first released a statement saying she felt overheated at the outdoor event. But after video of the incident surfaced online, the campaign released another statement from her longtime doctor revealing that Clinton, who had been battling a cough the preceding week, was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

A statement from her doctor released Wednesday said a CT scan revealed that Clinton had a noncontagious bacterial pneumonia and that she was instructed to take the antibiotic Levaquin for the next 10 days.

Following further advice from her doctor to rest and modify her schedule, Clinton canceled her plans to travel to the West Coast early this week, which included an appearance on The Ellen Show and a speech on the economy.

Clinton also phoned in to a fundraiser she had been scheduled to attend in San Francisco on Monday. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, filled in for her at her Hollywood fundraisers on Tuesday and a campaign event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Clinton, according to spokesman Nick Merrill, spent all three days off the campaign trail at her home in Chappaqua, New York, where a steady stream of flowers were seen delivered to the house.

During this downtime, Clinton tweeted, emailed and texted her supporters to update that she was feeling fine and getting better. She also caught up on reading briefings, made calls and watched President Obamas Tuesday campaign event on TV, Merrill said.

In an attempt to reassure voters and to downplay questions over her health and transparency, Clintons campaign insisted recently that the presidential nominee has no other undisclosed condition. It also released an additional two-page statement from Clintons longtime doctor on Wednesday stating that she continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States.

Clinton has played down her illness.

Asked during a phone interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper this week why she did not reveal her pneumonia diagnosis before Sunday, Clinton explained that she just didnt think it was going to be that big a deal.

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