Hillary Clinton calls CNN: ‘I’m feeling so much better’

Hillary Clinton called into a cable TV news show Monday to reassure Americans that she is “feeling so much better” after a health scare sidelined her from presidential race.

“I’m feeling so much better,” the Democratic nominee said on the phone with CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” program. “Obviously, I should have gotten some rest sooner.”

Mrs. Clinton canceled a campaign trip Monday to California, taking a two-day break from the race to recover from a bout of pneumonia that her campaign said was responsible for her near-collapse at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York a day earlier.

The Clinton campaign revealed that she was diagnosed Friday with pneumonia after video surfaces of Mrs. Clinton’s collapse.

“I probably would have been better off if I had just pulled down my schedule Friday,” Mrs. Clinton said. “Like a lot of people I though I could keep going forward and power through it, but obviously that didn’t work out so well.”

The incident reinvigorated questions about Mrs. Clinton’s heath that have dogged the former secretary of state for months, including speculation that she is hiding a serous medical condition.