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”. But even if Hillary Clinton is not relying on her daughter to restore her image, Chelsea would probably play a significant role in her mother’s presidency, a departure from most first daughters. She’s describing her mom as a diligent public servant who looks for solutions and dives into policy.
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Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton have always been friendly, which means this election season will be a true test of their acquaintanceship.
“I think it’s really hard for any of us to imagine what we can’t see so I am just really proud that little girls will be able to redirect their imaginations in other ways because [of] my mother”, she added.
Chelsea Clinton holds her newborn son Aidan Clinton Mezvinsky next to her husband Marc Mezvinsky as they exit Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, June 20, 2016. Just a forceful recognition that the obfuscatory, head-of-a-pin politics of the past are behind her. Americans are a forgiving people who love second chances and comeback kids.
“I think in some ways this is the gift of having grown up in politics”, she muses.
“I’m not here to take away your guns”, she said.
Clinton came into the convention facing deep voter concerns with her honesty and trustworthiness, stemming in part from her controversial use of a private internet server at the State Department. “In other words, child abuse”, she said.
“I think it’s important that all of us who don’t feel like Mr. Trump’s rhetoric of sexism and racism and islamophobia and anti-immigrant hatred and stance has no place in our country”, she said while holding a rare gaggle with reporters in Indianapolis in April.
But what has pushed her mother through the tough times in her lengthy political career is remembering her goal, Chelsea said.
Earlier, a new video on Hillary Clinton made by award-winning television producing partners Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers was released. “He had never focused on ensuring that we had the functions that not only enabled [other] doers to focus on doing, but also to help us keep systematic track of all the work that was being done”, she told Fast Company. “It is the calling of her life”.
Chelsea Clinton, 36, is remembered as being a shy teenager who grew up in the White House under the glare of the political spotlight.
For a candidate criticized as too rigid, cold and calculating, the best thing Chelsea can do is work to humanize her mother and break those stereotypes.
Through four nights of polished convention pageantry, Democratic heavyweights told a different story about Clinton.
Perry notes she’s been campaigning for Hillary Clinton since the Iowa caucuses.
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Actually, “Chugga Chugga” did not get an applause – at least not until Chelsea said it again, seemingly prompting the crowd to clap.
