Clinton Health Scare Shows How Both Candidates Skirt Close Coverage
Neither Trump nor Clinton has agreed to an arrangement with the media known as a protective pool.
Hillary Clinton Cancels California Trip
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When Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton abruptly left the Sept. 11 commemoration at Ground Zero on Sunday, the journalists covering her appearance there learned of her departure only after photographers could no longer find her in the crowd with their telephoto lenses.
As she appeared to stumble and need assistance into a black van that drove her three miles north to daughter Chelsea’s apartment, the scene was captured by a bystander on his phone. The dozen or so members of the media assigned to cover the candidate's every move remained cloistered inside the event. For almost 90 minutes amid a health scare there was no information from Clinton's aides.