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WILDCAT WEEKEND WHAT’S INSIDE
ARTS & LIFE: Experience the blues with Tom Walbank, p. 9
SCIENCE: Students work on new method of transport, p. 14
PHOTOS BY SAM GROSS/THE DAILY WILDCAT
Healthy president, healthy country AZ sued over presidential preference election BY AKSHAY SYAL
The Daily Wildcat
SPORTS:
Pimienta set to take over defensive captain role for Arizona soccer, p. 18
Foreign policy, the state of the American economy and immigration are among some of the large talking points of the 2016 presidential race. As the American people come closer and closer to making their decision on who will be the leader of the country for the next four years, there is one issue they should keep in mind: Is this candidate going to survive four years in office? To help answer that question, each campaign traditionally releases a sort of bill of health for their candidate. Usually written by each candidate’s personal physician, the letters detail the medical woes and wonders of each prospective figurehead. Here’s a quick synopsis of the
health of the current presidential front-runners: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump The Trump campaign has taken a rather bombastic approach to publicizing his health records. His letter, which was published in late 2015, described Trump’s health as “extraordinary” and his laboratory values as “astonishingly excellent.” This letter was penned by Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump’s personal physician since 1980. The letter said Trump lost more than 15 pounds in the past year and that he takes 81 milligrams of aspirin daily. Aspirin is a blood-thinning medication commonly used as a preventative measure against
PRESIDENTIAL HEALTH, 3
BY HANNAH BLOOM The Daily Wildcat
The Democratic National Committee and the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton announced on April 14 they are suing the state of Arizona over the voting techniques and delays that took place on the day of Arizona’s presidential preference election. Maricopa County, which includes the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, was and still is in the national spotlight for what some have called voter fraud and voter suppression during the presidential preference election on March 22.
Arizona’s day in the national political spotlight was marred by excessively long voter lines, a lack of polling stations and an arguable inaccessibility of polling stations for some communities. A lion’s share of these issues were reported in Maricopa Country in particular. Republican candidate Donald Trump won Arizona’s Republican delegates and Clinton took home the majority of delegates up for grabs in the Democratic vote. Arizona’s preference election was a closed vote, meaning only “recognized parties” could participate. Democrats, Republicans and Green
ELECTION LAWSUIT, 3
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