All that was missing was her granddaughter.
Chelsea Clinton hit the campaign trail here Saturday sounding an alarm about Republicans’ jingoism, sexism, racism and homophobia, as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s family came to her rescue in a painfully close caucus race.
Chelsea Clinton was joined by her father, former President Bill Clinton, who is one of the campaign’s biggest guns, to reignite enthusiasm among Mrs. Clinton’s supporters who increasingly fear she will lose the caucus contest to avowed democratic socialist Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders.
Mrs. Clinton has gone from a commanding lead to a neck-and-neck race against Mr. Sanders with 15 days until Iowa’s lead-off nominating contest.
“She can’t be president if you don’t nominate her, and if you do nominate her, I don’t think they can stop her form becoming president,” Mr. Clinton said to cheers and applause from the crowd in the gym at Abraham Lincoln High School.
The former president and his daughter made the case that Mrs. Clinton is the most qualified person ever to run for president and that allowing her to lose in the Buckeye State, as she did to Barack Obama in 2008, would risk losing the White House to Republicans.
“Everything that I care most about is at stake in this election,” said Chelsea Clinton. “Whether we think about a woman’s right to choose, whether we think about actually standing up to climate change or whether we think about our core American values, which are under significant assault at the moment from the other side, when we look at the jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia.”