Chelsea Clinton to Campaign in Michigan: How to Get Tickets

Chelsea Clinton, who could become the nation’s only two-time “first daughter,” will campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in three Michigan cities Thursday, Sept. 22, and Friday, Sept. 23, campaign officials said.

At events in Grand Rapids, East Lansing and Flint, she will lay out the stakes of November's election for Michigan families and emphasize her mom's central campaign themes that America is stronger when the economy works for everyone, not just those at the top.

Chelsea Clinton, who grew up in the White House while Bill Clinton was president from 1992-2000, will also highlight her mother’s long history of advocacy for children and families since 1973 when she began her professional career with the Children’s Defense Fund — shaping her career around advocacy for high quality public education for every American child, regardless of their background, location, or unique needs.

Plans have been firmed up for two of the events:

Women for Hillary Event with Chelsea Clinton
When: Thursday, September 22, 4:15 p.m. EST
Doors open to public: 3:30 p.m. EST
Where: Richard App Gallery, 910 Cherry St. SE, Grand Rapids
Members of the public can RSVP here.

Students for Hillary Event with Chelsea Clinton
When: Thursday, September 22, 7:10 p.m. EST
Doors open to public: 6:30 p.m. EST
Where: Student Union, Michigan State University, 49 Abbott Road, East Lansing
Members of the public can RSVP here.

Details of Chelsea Clinton’s visit to Flint on Sept. 23 are still pending.

Hillary Clinton has visited there twice, both times before she sealed the Democratic nomination, but the public health crisis that resulted after the city’s nearly 100,000 residents were exposed to unacceptably high levels of lead in their drinking water has been a central theme in her campaign.

Those exposed include about 12,000 children for whom lead poisoning can be a life sentence of emotional and intellectual problems. Some homes in Flint had water with lead levels more than 850 times the level the EPA considers unsafe.

See Also

• Donald Trump Closing In On Hillary Clinton in Michigan
• Flint Church Pastor Scolds Donald Trump for Attack on Hillary Clinton
• Donald Trump Calls Pastor Who Interrupted Him in Flint ‘A Nervous Mess’

Residents started complaining of discolored drinking water with particulate matter shortly after the the city began drawing water from the Flint River in 2014 as a cost-saving move while under the control of an emergency manager.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Flint last week, and was scolded by the pastor of the Bethel United Methodist Church, where he met with a group of about 70 invited guests and a small pool of mostly national media, for his attack on Clinton. Later, Trump called the Rev. Faith Green Timmons “a nervous mess.”

Hillary Clinton had a comfortable lead over Trump in Michigan last month, but a recent poll showed her 3-point advantage within the error margin of a poll conducted by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA for the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV.

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