...The admitted that how he runs his campaign will have to change after he suffered a heart attack last week on the campaign trail. The Vermont senator was hospitalized in Las Vegas for three days last week when he complained of chest pains during an event. Sanders had two stents inserted and returned home to Burlington, Vermont, over the weekend to recuperate. The episode appears to have changed the tenor of the hard-charging 78-year-old senator who winces at the personality contest involved in presidential politics.
"I think we’re going to change the nature of the campaign a bit," Sanders told news hounds. "Make sure that I have the strength to do what I have to do." The admission that he would need to take his foot off the gas to protect his health is an unusual one for an American presidential candidate, as youth and vitality‐no matter the candidate’s actual age‐has long been a prized asset. That’s likely why the Sanders campaign downplayed the severity of health scare and attempted to stay on course with a message that nothing had changed for the uncompromising candidate known to set an unrelenting pace on the campaign trail.