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Chelsea Clinton takes credit for pushing mom Hillary to support same-sex marriage
Chelsea Clinton has claimed she was the driving force behind her mother’s support for same-sex marriage in the US.
Speaking on Ellen DeGeneres’ show, Hillary Clinton’s daughter described her mum as ‘really funny’ and said she had won ‘the mom jackpot’.
Clinton also said she was the one to push her mother to support same-sex marriage – by getting involved in the fight for equal marriage first.
‘When I got married in 2010 to my best friend, it just crystallized so fundamentally to me that everyone should be allowed to marry their best friend,’ the younger Clinton told Ellen.
‘And so I joined the equal marriage fight in New York and we got equal marriage in New York in 2011.’
Chelsea Clinton also said she was proud to say her daughter, Charlotte, would grow up in a country where ‘she can marry whoever she wants to marry’.
Last month, it was revealed that Hillary Clinton was ‘a little put off’ by gay rights, with Bill Clinton telling a long-term friend gay people ‘acting out’ made his wife uncomfortable.
Now a mother herself, Chelsea told Ellen she didn’t think she could love, respect and admire her mother more, but the electoral campaign and the hard work she does to ensure that every little girl – and every little boy – could live up to their potential had proven her wrong – just like the fact that Hillary didn’t give up.
‘When I see her being attacked, I just have even more respect that she keeps fighting,’ Chelsea Clinton said when Ellen asked how she felt when seeing her mother being attacked.
‘Because I think she could have stopped a long time ago – she still would have accomplished a lot.
‘But that she keeps going because there is so much unfinished business.’
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