Chelsea Clinton rallies women for Harris in latest campaign Zoom call

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joined a “Women for Harris” Zoom call on Monday night to rally voters and fundraise for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.

Clinton said she is confident that Harris is “uniquely positioned” to prosecute the “case against Donald Trump for all of the unique dangers that he poses” to the country.

“Unlike 2016, Donald Trump is not theoretical,” Clinton said. “We now have a record that he can hold him to account for and we have an extraordinary candidate in Vice President Harris.”

“Shirley Chisholm put a big crack in that glass ceiling, my mom put a few more cracks in that glass ceiling, and Vice President Harris is going to obliterate that glass ceiling,” Clinton added.

The “Women for Harris” Zoom call drew in over 120,000 attendees, according to National Engagement Director Rhonda Foxx, and brought in Clinton and other top women activists such as Gloria Steinem, Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, and Hollywood actresses Yvette Nicole Brown and Connie Britton. It is the latest call to take place as several voting blocs are organizing virtual events to try and rally support and funds for Harris.

The vice president is continuing to capitalize on the momentum and energy that has infused the Democratic Party over the last week since President Joe Biden stepped aside as the nominee and endorsed Harris. Voting blocs of different genders and ages have created these online Zoom events to bring thousands of attendees together to raise money for Harris.

Win With Black Women hosted a Zoom call on July 21 that the group said attracted 44,000 attendees and raised more than $1.5 million. The next day, Win With Black Men hosted a call that an organizer said brought in nearly 54,000 attendees and raised $1.3 million. On Thursday night, a call intended for white women who support Harris drew 164,000 participants and raised $2 million, according to an organizer. 

Another speaker, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, took a swipe at Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) comments regarding “childless cat ladies” and women in abusive relationships, remarks that Vance has said have been taken out of context. 

“This is a choice between 2025 and 1925,” Shuler said, blasting Republicans for calling Harris a “Harris.”

“So the next few months, no matter what they throw at us, whether it’s sexism, racism, they’re going to call us ‘childless cat ladies’ — which some of us have dogs, by the way, J.D. Vance — but when we hear that stuff, we know it means they’re scared,” Shuler said.