Chelsea Clinton Testifies to Family Ties, and Political Ones

She highlighted a side of her mother that corresponded to polling weaknesses.

Chelsea Clinton Hails Her Mother as a Fighter

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Chelsea Clinton introduced her mother as the Democratic presidential nominee in Philadelphia on Thursday, in a highly personal speech that, in contrast Ivanka Trump's testimonial of her own famous father a week earlier, dwelled on the closeness of their political unity as much as their familial one.

Describing herself as a "proud mother" and a "very proud daughter," Clinton told the audience at Wells Fargo Center that "every day I spend as Charlotte and Aidan's mother, I think about my own mother—my wonderful, kind, thoughtful, hilarious mother."