Chelsea Clinton stumps for her mom at Wellesley College
WELLESLEY — On the lawn of the Alumnae Hall at Wellesley College Thursday, Chelsea Clinton chose her words carefully. Before her were mostly women, many of them mothers carrying children in their arms, with signs that said “Stronger Together.”
“I never thought I would see the almost normalization of hate speech that we have witnessed in this election,” she said.
There was a murmur of agreement from a crowd of more than 100. Clinton, the daughter of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, continued.
“The misogyny, the racism, the homophobia, the Islamophobia, the jingoism, the rhetoric against Americans with disabilities, the rhetoric against our veterans, the demeaning of a Gold-Star family,” she said. “None of that is what I believe our country to be at our best and it certainly does not represent the country that I want my children, our children, our grandchildren to grow up in.”
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