{"id":52412,"date":"2016-10-15T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T23:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52412"},"modified":"2016-10-15T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T23:55:39","slug":"trump-calls-for-drug-test-before-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=52412","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls for drug test before debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Rebecca Savransky<br \/>\nTHE HILL<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_nbcdupe_trumpdrugtest_161015' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> on Saturday called for himself and <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/hillary-clinton\" data-nid=\"188224\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span> to take a drug test prior to the third presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>During a campaign rally Saturday in New Hampshire, the GOP presidential nominee compared himself and Clinton to athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Athletes, they make them take a drug test, right. I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t we do that? We should take a drug test, prior, because I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on with her, but at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, &#8216;Oh, take me down,&#8217; &#8221; Trump said, imitating Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She could barely reach her car.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was willing to take drug test.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP nominee often raises questions about whether Clinton has the stamina and strength to serve as president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his allies have long floated conspiracy theories about Clinton&#8217;s health throughout the GOP nominee&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In an ad released last week, Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/300384-new-trump-ad-uses-footage-from-clinton-9-11-stumble\">painted Clinton<\/a> as unfit to protect the country and featured footage of her stumbling into a van when she fell ill at a 9\/11 memorial ceremony in New York.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/301181-trump-calls-for-drug-test-before-debate\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/301181-trump-calls-for-drug-test-before-debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}