“I hope it will be kind of at least as clear why I'm so proud of my mom when I introduce her here in Philadelphia,” Chelsea Clinton said. | AP Photo Chelsea Clinton: ‘My mother will make us proud’ 'Regardless of what’s happening in her life, she was always, always there for me,' Chelsea says from the convention stage. 
 
 More than two decades after she was introduced to the world as the curly-haired, braces-wearing daughter of the 42nd president of the United States, a beaming Chelsea Clinton strode on stage in Philadelphia to pay tribute to her other parent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. 
 
 “It is such an honor to be here tonight,” she said Thursday. “I’m here as a proud American, a proud Democrat, a proud mother and, tonight, in particular, a very, very proud daughter.” 
 
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 Chelsea delivered a potent testimony of her mother, who became the first woman in U.S. history to accept the presidential nomination of a major political party. She cast Hillary as a selfless wife, mother and grandmother who would drop everything for her family and a woman who has a relentless passion to help those in need. 
 
 “My mom can be about to walk on stage for a debate or a speech — it just doesn’t matter,” Chelsea said. “She’ll drop everything for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading ‘Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo’ with her granddaughter.” 
 
 In a polarizing election featuring two candidates with historic negatives, Chelsea went the positive route in her prime-time address, exclusively talking up her mother instead of trashing Donald Trump. 
 
 Chelsea recalled her earliest memory, a time when her mom was not only there to pick her up after she had fallen, but embraced her with a warm hug and read her a bedtime story. 
 
 “From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that, regardless of what’s happening in her life, she was always, always there for me,” she said. “Every softball game, every piano recital, every dance recital, Sundays spent together at church, in the local library, countless Saturdays spent finding shapes in the clouds, making up stories about whatever we would do if we met a Triceratops — in my opinion, the friendliest looking dinosaurs, although my mom would always remind me they were still dinosaurs.” 
 
 Hillary was a loving parent who put her only child first, always beginning conversations at the dinner table with her and leaving notes for Chelsea whenever she was away. “I treasured each and every one of those notes,” she said. “They were another reminder that I was always in her thoughts and in her heart.” 
 
 But dinner discussions also involved her parents’ passions, Chelsea said, such as education and health care, for example, and whatever else kept them up at night. 
 
 “I loved that my parents expected me to have opinions and to be able to back them up with facts,” she said, beginning to shift her argument from what makes Clinton a great person to what makes her the right president for America. 
 
 “I never doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas, and I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that’s what my mom wants for every child,” Chelsea said. “It is the calling of her life.” 
 
 Chelsea’s parents, she said, “taught me to care about what happens in our world and to do whatever I could to change what frustrated me, what felt wrong. They taught me that’s the responsibility that comes with being smiled on by fate.” 
 
 But Hillary specifically taught Chelsea that “public service is about service,” she said. “And as her daughter, I’ve had a special window into how she serves.” 
 
 Chelsea recalled the highs, lows and little-noticed moments of Hillary’s political career from her vantage point. She spoke of her mother vowing to help others in need and briskly moving to fulfill her promise. 
 
 
 
 “She always feels like there isn’t a moment to lose because she knows that for that mother, for that family, there isn’t,” Chelsea said. 
 
 But even when Hillary lost, like during her “bruising,” “exhausting” battle as first lady for universal health care, Chelsea continued, “my mom, she was amazing.” 
 
 “She took a little time to replenish her spirits,” she said, but soon got back to work “because she believed she could still make a difference for kids.” 
 
 “People ask me all the time: How does she do it? How does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics?” Chelsea added. “Here’s how: It’s because she never, ever forgets who she’s fighting for.” 
 
 Chelsea rattled off her mother’s life work, ticking through her accomplishments: making it easier for children to get adopted, helping first responders after 9/11 get health care and advocating for women’s rights. 
 
 “Fights like these, they’re what keep my mother going. They grab her heart and her conscience and they never, ever let go,” she said. “That’s who my mom is. She’s a listener and a doer. She’s a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love.” 
 
 Chelsea has been largely absent from public view during her mother’s presidential run. Instead of joining Hillary on the trail, Chelsea, who gave birth to her second child last month, has campaigned for her — often participating in little-noticed organizing and get-out-the-vote events around the country that warranted virtually no national press. 
 
 
 
 Meantime, Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, has been a top surrogate and adviser to his campaign. Ivanka, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, spoke warmly of Trump as an encouraging father and successful businessman committed to advancing women’s careers when she introduced him as the GOP nominee during a well-received address at the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland. 
 
 But Thursday was Chelsea’s turn, a rare chance for her to take the spotlight and address a mass audience. She spoke to a packed Wells Fargo Center — just moments before her mother accepted her historic nomination and on the same stage that political heavyweights like her father, former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had also captivated the large Philadelphia crowd. 
 
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 Chelsea, herself a vice chair of her family’s Clinton Foundation, said she was open to meeting with Trump’s children — or at least Ivanka — to address the rhetoric and tenor of their parents’ campaigns. In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer broadcast Thursday morning, Chelsea praised her longtime friend for her speech. 
 
 “I think it was clear last week when Ivanka introduced her dad that she's so proud of him,” she said. “I hope it will be kind of at least as clear why I'm so proud of my mom when I introduce her here in Philadelphia.” 
 
 As it turned out, it was. “This November, I’m voting for a woman who is my role model as a mother and as an advocate, a woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children,” she said. 
 
 “Mom, Grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight,” she said in closing. “To everyone watching here and at home, I know with all my heart that my mother will make us proud as our next president.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– Chelsea Clinton looked back to moments growing up in the White House and praised her "wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious" mother in her speech to the Democratic convention Thursday night. "I'm here as a proud American, a proud Democrat, a proud mother, and, tonight in particular, a very, very proud daughter," she said. She spoke of how her mother had always been there for her and said "that feeling—being valued and loved—that's something my mom wants for every child. It is the calling of her life," per the Guardian. Chelsea—who said her mother will still drop everything to FaceTime her 2-year-old granddaughter Charlotte "for a few minutes of blowing kisses and reading 'Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo'"—said Hillary is able to keep going "because she never ever forgets who she's fighting for." "I'm voting for a woman who is a role model as a mother and an advocate, the progressive who will protect our planet from climate change, and our communities from gun violence, who knows that women's rights are human rights," said Chelsea, who gave birth to her second child last month and has largely been out of the spotlight during her mother's campaign, Politico notes. "I'm voting for a fighter who never ever gives up and who believes that we can always do better when we come together," she said, adding: "Mom—Grandma would be so, so proud of you tonight."