During a visit today at the University of Maine, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s daughter urged her mother’s supporters to go door-to-door to elevate the national discussion from some of the crude statements made by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Chelsea Clinton said productive conversations detailing her mother’s civil rights, education and financial policies would be an improvement over the GOP agenda.
“I do think that if we can continue to take this election out of the ether — or the sewer — and root it in what actually matters in people’s lives, we will win,” Clinton said. “That’s partly why I said I was so grateful to everyone who has knocked on doors and made phone calls already and has already talked to family members and friends.”
The former First Daughter also said Donald Trump would set back human rights advancements in the United States citing something Clinton said educators are referring to as the “Trump effect;” prompting kids to bully other kids in the classroom. She shared the story of a mother from Guatemala who told her she and her son are now both American citizens.
“She said ‘I’m proud, I graduated from graduate school, I got a good job here,’” Clinton said. “‘This is the only country that my son has ever known.’ He went back to school less than two weeks ago at the time she was telling me this story. He’s 12 years old and he already had three kids in his class say to him either ‘go back to Mexico’ or ‘can’t wait until we build a wall to keep people like you out,’ so when we say our kids are listening, this is not rhetorical.”
Clinton staged her press event in Maine’s hotly contested 2nd Congressional District, where Trump hopes to win at least one of Maine’s four electoral votes.
