Perry notes she’s been campaigning for Hillary Clinton since the Iowa caucuses.
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Her daughter, Chelsea, described just how that works: The former secretary of state loves interacting on Face Time with granddaughter Charlotte, almost 2.
“It’s not something that he has spoken about, there are no policies on any of those fronts that you just mentioned on his website-not last week, not this week, so I think the “how” question is super important”, Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton finally spoke at the Democratic National Convention on July 28, and her speech was truly heartfelt and moving. “So this November, I’m voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as an advocate”. Her speech focused on those themes.
Chelsea said she was voting for the progressive who will protect the planet from climate change, communities from gun violence, will reform the criminal justice system and believes that women’s rights are human rights and LGBT rights are human rights. She spent some of her formative years in the White House and, like her parents, has remained in the public eye ever since. “I am an only child – a unique position that I have and I hope that people understand even more when I’m done than when I started about why I love her so much and admire her so much”. I’m so grateful to be her daughter.
I’ve seen her holding the hands of mothers anxious about how they will feed their kids, anxious about how they will get them the healthcare they need.
Whenever my mom was away for work, which thankfully did not happen very often, she let notes for me to open every day she was gone. I treasured each and every one. “Regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always always there for me”, said Chelsea. “That feeling of being valued and loved, that’s what my mom wants for every child”.
There’s something else my mother taught me: public service is about service. I saw it up close.
While Chelsea Clinton quoted her mother’s famous “women’s rights are human rights” line, Ivanka Trump promised that her father would change labor laws for working mothers, make child care more accessible for all and provide wage equality should her father win the presidency. It was bruising and exhausting. She also recounted her mother’s losing fight to achieve universal health care in 1994, and how she recovered, getting “right back to work”.
She defended John McCain, who was chastised by Trump for becoming a prisoner of war.
Chelsea recalled those fights: “She’s worked to make it easier for foster kids to be adopted, for our 9/11 first responders to get the health care they deserve, for women around the world to be safe, to be treated with dignity and to have more opportunities”.
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Lavon Bracy, a Clinton delegate from Orlando, said Chelsea’s speech really gave the crowd a sense of what it was like to grow up in the Clinton household.
