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"I
misspoke the other day. I said a word I should not have said and
media drives me a little bit nuts to make a big deal about it,"
Sanders said in an interview with NBC News. "We're going to get
back into the groove of a very vigorous campaign. I love doing
rallies and I love doing town meetings."
"I want to start off slower and build up and build up and build
up."
Sanders, 78, who is one of the top three contenders among the 19
Democrats seeking to take on Republican President Donald Trump
in the November 2020 election, suffered chest pains on Oct. 1
while in Nevada for a campaign stop and abruptly canceled
campaign events.
He told reporters outside his home in Burlington, Vermont, on
Tuesday that he had wrongly ignored warning signs about his
health. He said he would still actively campaign but could
"change the nature of the campaign a bit" and "make sure that I
have the strength to do what I have to do."
In the NBC interview, Sanders rejected criticism that his
campaign was not forthright about the heart attack, since it
initially told reporters there was a blockage in his artery.
"That's nonsense," he said, explaining he and his family were
dealing with multiple doctors and trying to figure out what had
happened - not what to tell the media.
Sanders, the oldest candidate in the Democratic field, told NBC
he planned to release all of his medical records, but did not
say when. He plans on participating in next week's fourth
Democratic presidential debate.
"I'm healthy and we're going to run a vigorous campaign and
we’re going to win this thing," he said.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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