--- title: Hillary Clinton Returns to Campaign Trail with Speech description: Hillary Clinton will return to the campaign trail Thursday after spending several days at home recovering from pneumonia canonical: https://time.com/4495455/hillary-clinton-campaign-trail-pneumonia-speech/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T16:47:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:49.296Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Returns to Campaign Trail with N.C. 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Yana Paskova—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Sep 15, 2016 4:47 PM UTC Hillary Clinton will return to the campaign trail Thursday after spending several days at home recovering from [pneumonia](http://time.com/4487345/hillary-clinton-pneumonia/). The Democratic presidential candidate will give a speech in North Carolina, where [aides said](http://time.com/4494832/hillary-clinton-heads-back-on-the-trail/) she “will focus on what has been at the core of who Hillary Clinton is as a person and the mission of her campaign.” After Clinton on Sunday left a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City because she became overheated, her health came under renewed scrutiny. On Wednesday, she released more detailed [medical records](http://time.com/4493918/hillary-clinton-pneumonia-records/) in which her doctor said Clinton was recovering well and is “healthy and fit to serve as President of the United States.” Clinton’s speech in Greensboro, N.C. is set to begin at 3:45 p.m. Watch a livestream here. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495455/hillary-clinton-campaign-trail-pneumonia-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495455/hillary-clinton-campaign-trail-pneumonia-speech/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Returns to Campaign Trail with North Carolina Speech","datePublished":"2016-09-15T16:47:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:49.296Z","description":"She has been home resting for three days","url":"https://time.com/4495455/hillary-clinton-campaign-trail-pneumonia-speech/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba2985f1de7cd1c/6988a646656a3fb043bcd1f0/hillary-clinton-north-carolina-pneumonia-campaign-trail-2016-health-records.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcba2985f1de7cd1c/6988a646656a3fb043bcd1f0/hillary-clinton-north-carolina-pneumonia-campaign-trail-2016-health-records.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MANHATTAN, NY - SEPTEMBER 11: U.S. Presidential Candidate Hilla","caption":"U.S. Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton exits her daughter Chelsea Clinton's apartment","creditText":"Yana Paskova—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4495455/hillary-clinton-campaign-trail-pneumonia-speech/","name":"Watch Live: Hillary Clinton Returns to Campaign Trail with North Carolina Speech"}}]}] ```