Chelsea Clinton Considering A Run For Office
Chelsea Clinton is considering following in her parents’ political footsteps with her own bid for office.
Clinton was out helping the annual Clinton Global Initiative University, a meeting that her father’s agency holds for college students. She moderated panels and hosted sessions at the St. Louis meeting, which covered a broad area of topics including human trafficking and child mortality.
Since Chelsea Clinton rarely takes a step into the public spotlight, reporters took the opportunity to ask her whether she’s considering her own run for public office some day. She responded:
“Right now I’m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative,” she said. “If at some point that weren’t true and I thought I could make a meaningful and measurably greater impact, I’d have to ask and answer that question.”
She’s already off to a good start, what with all that not giving a definitive answer stuff.
Still, she has taken a more active role in public service, something she credits Dorothy Rodham, her maternal grandmother, for.
“She probably didn’t think of it as urging – she definitely thought of it as, you know, grandmotherly nagging, and she exercised that prerogative often,” she said.
Chelsea Clinton also addressed the persistent rumors that her mother, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will be making her own White House run in 2016.
“I deeply respect and appreciate all of the admiration and respect and gratitude for my mother’s service,” Clinton said of her mother. “As a daughter, I very much want her to make the right choice for herself, and I know that will be (the) right choice for our country, and I’ll support her in whatever she chooses to do.”
You can check out a video of Chelsea Clinton’s interview with TODAY below. What do you think? Should she make a run for office?
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