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Clinton calls in sick

“Feeling great.”
‘Feeling great.’ Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

1. ‘She is not contagious’

Hillary Clinton spent the day resting at home on doctor’s orders after she stumbled out of a 9/11 memorial event Sunday. She has pneumonia, her campaign said – but “she’s not contagious”.

Campaign: ‘we could have done better’

Clinton sign in Chappaqua
A sign along a road near the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images

Updated

2. Clinton to release more medical records

Spokesman Brian Fallon said Clinton would release more medical information “to further put to rest any lingering concerns”. He said multiple campaign staffers “have been ill with respiratory issues”.

Eight things more important than Clinton’s pneumonia

Sunday’s stumble.
Sunday’s stumble. Photograph: AP

3. Trump promises results of physical

Donald Trump said he had had a physical exam last week and would release his “numbers” later this week with Dr Oz, the TV doctor whose peers have diagnosed in him an “egregious lack of integrity”.

‘Very, very specific’ health report soon

Lunch Monday in Dundalk, Maryland.
Lunch Monday in Dundalk, Maryland. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Friendly (?) fire

4. Trump goes big on ‘deplorables’ flap

After Clinton told donors she puts half of Trump’s supporters – the racists and bigots – in a “basket of deplorables”, Trump pounced, releasing an ad accusing Clinton of “viciously demonizing hard-working people like you”.

Trump attacks Clinton as elitist

Protester in front of the new Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.
Protester in front of the new Trump International Hotel in Washington. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Irony alert

Hillary Clinton lives a sequestered life behind gates and guards … You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter … if Hillary Clinton will not retract her comments in full, I don’t see how she can credibly campaign any further.

– Donald Trump

The Trump hypocrisy award

5. Trump childhood home for sale

Trump’s childhood home, a five-bedroom Tudor in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood in Queens, will go up for auction on 19 October.

All races welcome, unlike in Trump-owned apartments in the 1970s.
All races welcome, unlike in Trump-owned apartments in the 1970s. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

6. Trump’s debate idea: ditch the moderators

“Maybe we should have no moderator,” Trump said. “Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate because I think the system is being rigged so it’s gonna be a very unfair debate.”

Meet the moderators

Unique New York. Unique New York.
Unique New York. Unique New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

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