Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s daughter, is set to support her mom by speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Thursday night.
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But that hasn’t stopped the Republican presidential candidate’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, from opening up about her relationship with the competition: Hillary Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton. Much like former President Bill Clinton’s speech on Tuesday night, Chelsea Clinton’s remarks will look to bolster trust and tout Hillary Clinton’s character.
Hillary Clinton has faced unrelenting insults, political and editorial attacks, biting editorial cartoons and nasty TV parodies during a career that included a lawyer fighting for children in poverty, first lady of Arkansas and the nation, USA senator from NY and secretary of state.
Uh-oh! There’s definitely some bad blood between ex-BFF’s Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton now that their parents are rivals.
On Tuesday, Clinton joined Lena Dunham and America Ferrera for a Facebook Live event with Glamour’s Editor in Chief, Cindi Leive, who brought up Ivanka’s speech at the GOP Convention last week, “in which she essentially painted her father as the Gloria Steinem of the Republican party”. “She also tells you how she’s going to pay for it”, Chelsea Clinton said.
Because she’s lived so long in public, many voters feel they already know her, like Cynthia Doty, 65, a Clinton supporter from New York City, who said, “I think she’s grown up into a really remarkable woman”.
But, earlier this week, Ivanka Trump told People Magazine that she and Clinton are still friendly, despite the “tremendous intensity” surrounding their parents.
‘And yet clearly Ivanka and I have very different views on who we think should be our president and who would be best for the country, ‘ Chelsea said.
When asked if she would consider holding a “children’s summit” with Ivanka to discuss the personal attacks their parents” and their parents’ surrogates have been launching at each other, Chelsea said it hadn’t occurred her but it’s “certainly something I would consider’. “I love Ivanka, and I think friendship always trumps politics, and that’s how it should be”. “My mother is not engaging in divisive, bigoted rhetoric”.
After spending time as a management consultant and as a correspondent for NBC, Chelsea Clinton now works for the Clinton Foundation and recently wrote a book for middle-school aged kids.
Katie White, 18, of San Antonio, Texas, said she was looking forward to the speech: “I think Ivanka did a lot to help Donald Trump”.
Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate, speaks at the Democratic National Convention on the third day.
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Emma Schmit, 22, of Rockwell City, Iowa, agreed: “She’s part of the one percent”.
