President Barack Obama is campaigning Tuesday for his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, as she takes a few days off to recover from pneumonia.

Obama is speaking at a Clinton rally in Philadelphia where he will also attend a fundraiser for the Democratic Party.

Clinton told CNN late Monday she expects to resume campaigning later this week.  Her staff has said it erred in not disclosing sooner her diagnosis, which came on Friday, two days before she abruptly left an event in New York and drew questions about her health.

“I just didn’t think it was going to be that big a deal,” Clinton said Monday.

Both Clinton and her Republican opponent Donald Trump have pledged to release more of their medical information soon.

Trump on Monday criticized Clinton for saying last week that half of his supporters are “deplorables.”

“She said tens of millions of patriotic Americans are a basket of deplorables,” Trump said.  “How can you be president for so many people?  She talks about people like they’re objects, not like they’re human beings.”

Clinton has said she regretted her remark.

The two candidates are about two weeks away from their first of three presidential debates.  Voters will choose the next U.S. president on November 8.
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