Forty-eight percent of likely Democratic voters backed Sanders in that scenario, according to the poll released Friday.

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Questions about Clinton’s health intensified when she suffered a mishap in public Sunday, stumbling and struggling to enter a van outside a Sept. 11 memorial in New York City.

After the incident, her campaign revealed that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia two days earlier. Clinton came off the campaign trail for several days while she recovered.

Trump has repeatedly attacked Clinton’s “stamina,” and campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson claimed without evidence in August that Clinton had brain damage.

Rasmussen is a GOP-leaning pollster.

The poll found that 46 percent of voters overall said the media is making too much of Clinton’s health, while 28 percent said there wasn’t enough coverage and 21 percent said the amount of coverage was right.

Sixty-three percent of Democrats said coverage of Clinton’s health was excessive, but only 35 percent of Republicans and 39 percent of independents agreed.

Rasmussen conducted its poll of 1,000 likely voters Sept. 14–15. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.