“And mom, grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight”, she said, speaking of Hillary’s late mother, who passed away in 2011.
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The phrase “stronger together” is becoming a key theme of Clinton’s campaign as a way to differentiate her from Trump, who critics have said is exploiting national divides for political gain. She was also speaking to the nation, making her case against Republican candidate Donald Trump, and seeking to capture support from the demographics most susceptible to the NY billionaire’s message. Yet in a scattershot news conference Wednesday, Trump tried to turn the table on Clinton, saying he believed it unsafe for her to receive national security briefings in light of her well-known email missteps while in office. “Their children are mature and accomplished”. Clinton would be the most disliked presidential candidate ever – if it weren’t for Trump.
Chelsea Clinton has had a modest presence around Philadelphia this week, having given birth to her second child with husband Marc Mezvinsky just a month ago.
He also queried her failure to mention “radical Islam”. She acknowledged those concerns briefly, saying “I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me”. “But there are also a higher number of undecided voters than there usually are, so we’ll just have to see how it shakes out”. “Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between”, she said.
She said President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous words are the flawless rebuke: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. She received several standing ovations in her nine-minute remarks.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said.
Presidential kids have always been in a universe of their own, out of the limelight but rarely hidden, often coming of age in an unforgiving fishbowl that highlighted their every misstep.
And yet, at age 68, Clinton now stands at the threshold of the White House. She says that, in the end, voters will reject a candidate who says that “I alone can fix it”, as Trump put it so directly in his acceptance speech. “And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“Through nursery school, kindergarten, T-ball, soccer, volleyball and her passion for ballet”. “Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis”, she said. They booed Clinton during parts of her speech.
She further criticized what she called “the bigotry and the bombast” of the Trump campaign and cast his temperament has unfit for the presidency. When she showed up on stage with her mother, she barely spoke.
“I’ve seen her at the low points, like the summer of 1994”, her daughter said.
She also needs to make inroads with voters who find her untrustworthy or unlikable.
She offered herself as a more pragmatic alternative to a nation that seems more divided than at any time since the height of the Vietnam War in 1968.
Sometimes, her avoidance of reporters seemed a bit surreal.
Clinton’s convention began with a focus on the main drivers of the Obama coalition-women, young people, minorities, and progressives-in an effort to bring together the party after Sanders pulled it to the left with his spirited primary challenge. When polling showed as much, a People magazine cover featuring the trio quickly appeared. Networks’ decisions were based, in large part, on the growing importance of primaries.
“Let’s look to the future together with confidence”, she said. She’s uncomfortable in front of news cameras. “I have to give her props for that”.
“I did not hear any kind of contrition or acknowledgment of the questions about her email server”, Kondik told VOA.
Early on, she planned to study pre-med, but moved toward finance instead. Then the woman who refused to talk to the media landed a job as a special correspondent for NBC News.
Rhetorically, Clinton did not try to compete with some of the speakers who had gone before her this week. She redefined the role of presidential spouse, then became the first first lady to be elected to the Senate.
She later met privately with them and said she never expected Sanders delegates to immediately embrace Clinton when they arrived in Philadelphia.
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Now 24 years later, the grown woman afforded her mother that honor when she introduced her to the convention.
