[h=1]The cough is back! Clinton covers her mouth to clear her throat as she speaks to reporters on her campaign plane - after cough-free debate[/h]
PUBLISHED: 18:10, 27 September 2016 | UPDATED: 20:12, 27 September 2016
It has been the cough which has dogged Hillary Clinton's campaign - and hours after it failed to surface at the presidential debate, it was back.
Clinton covered her mouth briefly to cough as she spoke on Tuesday to reporters on board her plane.
It interrupted a claim of triumph in the debate, which many had been watching avidly for clues as to her true state of health.
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Returned: Clinton went 95 minutes without coughing on Monday night but it resurfaced in a brief conversation on Tuesday morning on her campaign plane
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Holding on: Clinton took a firm grip of the rail as she climbed the steps to her campaign's Boeing 737 at White Plains Airport, near her Chappaqua, NY, home
But she was unaffected by either the cough or the other issues which have been commented on during her campaign - particularly her eyes not moving together.
Some observers, including conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, had suggested that one of the major elements of pressure on Clinton on Monday night was to avoid coughing.
He had told MSNBC: 'She has so many things she can't do. She cannot cough, she cannot laugh with the distinctive Hillary laugh, she cannot shout like she did at her supporters last week and she cannot condescend.'
Clinton successfully lasted the full 95 minutes of the event - which over-ran by five minutes - and it was Trump's persistent sniffing which was widely noticed.
Her health was not raised by Lester Holt, the debate moderator, and Trump also refrained from directly discussing it.
- Clinton made it through 95 minutes of debate on Monday night without her notorious cough showing up
- But in a brief discussion with reporters on her campaign plane on Tuesday morning she was coughing again
- Persistent questions about her health were only raised glancingly at the debate when Trump said he questioned her stamina
PUBLISHED: 18:10, 27 September 2016 | UPDATED: 20:12, 27 September 2016
It has been the cough which has dogged Hillary Clinton's campaign - and hours after it failed to surface at the presidential debate, it was back.
Clinton covered her mouth briefly to cough as she spoke on Tuesday to reporters on board her plane.
It interrupted a claim of triumph in the debate, which many had been watching avidly for clues as to her true state of health.
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Returned: Clinton went 95 minutes without coughing on Monday night but it resurfaced in a brief conversation on Tuesday morning on her campaign plane
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Holding on: Clinton took a firm grip of the rail as she climbed the steps to her campaign's Boeing 737 at White Plains Airport, near her Chappaqua, NY, home
But she was unaffected by either the cough or the other issues which have been commented on during her campaign - particularly her eyes not moving together.
Some observers, including conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, had suggested that one of the major elements of pressure on Clinton on Monday night was to avoid coughing.
He had told MSNBC: 'She has so many things she can't do. She cannot cough, she cannot laugh with the distinctive Hillary laugh, she cannot shout like she did at her supporters last week and she cannot condescend.'
Clinton successfully lasted the full 95 minutes of the event - which over-ran by five minutes - and it was Trump's persistent sniffing which was widely noticed.
Her health was not raised by Lester Holt, the debate moderator, and Trump also refrained from directly discussing it.
