Will Chelsea Clinton Run For Office? Amid Trump Opposition, Bill And Hillary's Daughter The Subject Of Political Rumors

In the wake of her mother's shocking loss in the 2016 presidential election, Chelsea Clinton's public profile has risen, which has led to suggestions she could mount a political career of her own. Politico reported on Clinton's increasingly pointed Twitter account Monday while the New York Post ran an editorial over the weekend titled, "God help us if Chelsea Clinton runs for office."

The 36-year-old daughter of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea herself has not suggested she has any plans to run for office. But just after the election, the Post's Page Six reported, citing an anonymous source, that she was being groomed to take the New York Congressional seat held by Rep. Nita Lowey, when the 79-year-old retires.

Clinton's public Twitter account has grown far more caustic in the wake of Trump presidency, notably prodding the president and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway for attacks they seemed to have invented. "What happened in Sweden Friday night? Did they catch the Bowling Green Massacre perpetrators?" Clinton tweeted.

She's also regularly tweeted serious political points and condemnations of the new administration. "Antisemitism in action again," she tweeted over the weekend in reference headstones that were damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. "We cannot be desensitized to this. We cannot normalize hate in any form."

While Chelsea Clinton has not ruled out a political career, she is apparently figuring out her transition out of the election, Politico reported. "Lots of people are riled up and dialing it up,” Philippe Reines, a longtime Clinton associate told the news outlet. "Not as loyalists, but as citizens. I'm guessing that's a big part of the motivation behind what she's saying and how she's saying it. She just also happens to be a Clinton."

But the Stanford grad's public interest in politics remains somewhat new. Earlier this month, the Washington Post noted that "she's never really driven a political message" that is, "until now." But it remains unclear what the public's appetite would be for another Clinton after the loss to Trump. Some liberal activists at a Democratic National Committee forum are not interested in another Clinton in political office, reported the conservative outlet the Washington Times.

"Chelsea needs to go away," Guinevere Boyd, a 49-year-old Alaskan told the paper. "She has nothing to offer. She has said some horrible clueless things about progressives and progressive issues."