text: Chelsea Clinton said Thursday that Donald Trump describes a country in which she can’t imagine raising her children. 
   
   “That actually I found far more upsetting … than anything they said about my mom,” Clinton said in an interview with NBC’s “Today” that aired Thursday. 
   
   Republicans’ attacks on Hillary Clinton pale in comparison to Trump's insults of women, minorities, Muslims and immigrants, Chelsea Clinton said. She said that she doesn’t worry about the attacks on her mother because years in politics taught Hillary Clinton how to respond. 
   
   "She’s tough and she can take whatever people say about her," Chelsea Clinton said. ||||| News Chelsea Clinton on her big convention moment, what she hopes Bill will be called 
   
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   Chelsea Clinton, who just gave birth to her second child last month, said she expects her "heart will burst” when her mother becomes the first woman to accept the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday night. 
   
   “This election is so important to me, because I'm now a mom. And as proud as I am of my mom, this election to me is fundamentally about my children, about Charlotte and Aidan,” the former first daughter told TODAY’s Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview. 
   
   “And I couldn't imagine a better president for them. I couldn't imagine a better grandmother for them, either. And so I think just standing there, thinking about my children and looking at my mom, I think it's going to be overwhelming.” 
   
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   Clinton said she will speak from the heart Thursday when she introduces her mother at the Democratic National Convention. 
   
   The 36-year-old will become the only person to have both parents receive nods for president and hopes to tap into her experience of having parents who have been in the public eye her entire life. 
   
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   “I just hope that people understand even a little more when I'm done than when I started about why I love her so much and admire her so much,” she said. 
   
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   The job will be critical, as Hillary Clinton fights high negative ratings, even from some in her own party. 
   
   Chelsea Clinton acknowledged she needs to overcome a disconnect between the presidential candidate Republicans described last week at their convention and “the person that I know" and hopes to convey in her convention speech. 
   
   “That's not the person that I know," she said about the negative portrayals of her mom. 
   
   "That's not the person that I grew up with, that I'm so proud to stand beside and to introduce here in Philadelphia.” 
   
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   Republican nominee Donald Trump has taken to calling Clinton “Crooked Hillary,” and last week delegates at his party's convention frequently broke into chants of “lock her up.” 
   
   But Clinton described her mom as a fighter. 
   
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   “She’s tough and she can take whatever people say about her,” she said. 
   
   There is one parallel between the conventions: Clinton will introduce her mother, just as Ivanka Trump introduced her father in Cleveland last week. 
   
   Clinton said she considers Ivanka a friend. 
   
   “And yet clearly, Ivanka and I have very different views about who we think should be our president, who we think best represents our country,” she said. 
   
   "I think it's clear that Mr. Trump is running his campaign and saying what he thinks is important in this election,” Clinton said. “I think what we're seeing here in Philadelphia is a very strong contrast to that. And my mother's not engaging in divisive, bigoted rhetoric.” 
   
   Clinton also was asked a question she said she gets all the time: What would her father, former President Bill Clinton, be called should he return to the White House? 
   
   "He likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called 'first laddie'” she said with a laugh. 
   
   But Clinton doesn’t think that will catch on. 
   
   “So I'm definitely voting for 'first gentleman,'” she said. ||||| She is not done courting Sanders voters. 
   
   Demonstrations inside and outside the convention hall this week made clear that Mrs. Clinton had some work to do to persuade at least some die-hard supporters of Mr. Sanders. 
   
   On Thursday, she seemed to acknowledge as much, quickly addressing them directly with a simple message: I hear you. 
   
   “Your cause is our cause,” she said, thanking Mr. Sanders for placing issues of economic and social justice “front and center, where they belong.” 
   
   Total unity has been elusive, and could remain so. As Mrs. Clinton accepted the nomination, some Sanders delegates stood stone-faced, occasionally booing or silently protesting. 
   
   Democrats will keep talking about Trump’s proposed Muslim ban. 
   
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   During the Republican primary race, Mr. Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration appeared to do nothing but help at the polls, even as rivals objected with varying degrees of outrage. 
   
   Democrats appear convinced they can win the argument among the wider electorate. And they may have found their most potent voice: Khizr Khan, an American Muslim whose son, Humayun S. M. Khan, was killed in Iraq. 
   
   In a stirring address, his stoicism building to a controlled simmer, Mr. Khan challenged Mr. Trump on behalf of “patriotic American Muslims” everywhere. “You have sacrificed nothing,” Mr. Khan said, his wife standing silently beside him, “and no one.” 
   
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   For organizers, the choice to showcase Mr. Khan amounted to a pointed dare: Are these people not American enough for you, Mr. Trump? 
   
   There’s another ‘law and order’ franchise. 
   
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   Mr. Trump has presented himself as something of a one-man anti-crime plan, arguing that he is the lone force standing between the United States and semi-lawless dystopia. Republican leaders have accused Democrats of giving terrorism issues short shrift in Philadelphia. 
   
   But as Thursday’s slate made clear, Mrs. Clinton’s team believes that Mr. Trump, with his scattershot defense policies and often erratic statements, has supplied an opportunity. For much of the evening, matters of public safety took center stage, with testimony from a retired Marine general — to chants of “U.S.A.!” — a Texas sheriff and the relatives of fallen officers. 
   
   It was consistent with a theme of the week: No presumed Republican motif — from an emphasis on national defense to conspicuous invocations of faith to warm quotations of Ronald Reagan — is safe from Democratic encroachment in the age of Trump. 
   
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   About that glass ceiling … 
   
   In her presidential runs, Mrs. Clinton has at times struggled with how, and how often, to highlight her gender. No more. 
   
   First Chelsea Clinton paid tribute to her maternal compassion, saying that Mrs. Clinton’s own mother would be proud. 
   
   Then Mrs. Clinton, calling herself “my mother’s daughter and my daughter’s mother,” stopped to cheer her nomination as “a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union.” 
   
   There is a risk in turning off male voters, with whom she has fared poorly in surveys. Mrs. Clinton argued explicitly that they, too, had a stake in her success, whether or not they recognized it. “When any barrier falls in America,” she said, “it clears the way for everyone.”
target: – As the Democratic National Convention heads into its final night, viewers may experience a subtle sense of deja vu from last week's RNC event: the presidential nominee being preceded by an intimate speech from a daughter. It's Chelsea Clinton's turn to "sell Mrs. Clinton to the American public," as the New York Times puts it, wondering if the former first daughter's spin will tend toward Hillary's role as a feminism advocate—the theme Thursday night focuses on women's issues—a doting mom, or both. Chelsea Clinton may even touch upon Trump: Per the Los Angeles Times, the younger Clinton told Today Thursday morning that the way she's heard the GOP nominee talk about the US is "far more upsetting … than anything they said about my mom." As for the main event herself, the New York Times notes Hillary Clinton has a tall order before her on the DNC stage Thursday night: to start to win back citizens' trust, make a case why Trump is too "erratic" to be president, and "own her flaws" about everything from her highly publicized email server issues to problems she's dealt with in her personal life. Another challenging task: making a speech that gives a shoutout to President Obama's achievements but lays out new goals of her own so she doesn't seem like a clone.