WASHINGTON: Democratic White House candidate Kamala Harris plans to release her medical report on Saturday to confirm her fitness to serve as president, her campaign said, a move that would make her health record available to rival Donald Trump. The purpose is to put pressure on them to make it public.
A campaign adviser to Ms. Harris, 59, said the report concludes that “she has the physical and mental resilience necessary to successfully carry out the duties of the office of president.”
The vice president’s team aims to focus on the physical health and mental acuity of the 78-year-old former president, who has so far refused to release detailed medical information.
Republican Trump became the oldest presidential candidate in U.S. history after 81-year-old President Joe Biden withdrew from the White House race in July.
Mr. Biden handed the torch to Ms. Harris after a disastrous debate against Mr. Trump raised concerns among Democrats about his mental sharpness.
But Trump’s apparent vitality means age has so far not factored into his chances in the polls in a tight battle with Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. .
The Harris campaign drew attention to a series of recent articles in the New York Times that raised concerns about the fact that President Trump has withheld basic information about his health.
The newspaper also published an analysis that found Trump’s speeches were becoming increasingly long, “confused” and vulgar, which experts said could be a sign of a cognitive shift. said.
Trump has maintained that he is in good health, but his campaign has not released a complete health report.
In late 2023, President Trump released a memo from a former White House physician declaring him in “excellent health,” but the content lacked details, and in September 2023. There was no mention of what tests Trump underwent during his medical examination.
The same doctor, Ronnie Jackson, issued a statement in July after Trump was wounded in the ear by an assassin’s bullet at a rally in Pennsylvania, saying the former president was in good condition.
Meanwhile, Trump bragged about a cognitive test he took with Jackson while he was president in 2018, but quickly mispronounced the doctor’s name and called him “Lonnie Johnson.”
If Trump wins the November election, he will be 82 years old at the end of his second term in the Oval Office.
