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Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, emphasized to a Madison crowd on Thursday that her mother was the Democratic presidential candidate who could make progress with lawmakers of both parties.

Part of that was being able to develop a realistic way to fund a plan to make college more affordable — a contrast from her mother’s opponent, independent Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Chelsea Clinton said.

Sanders has proposed providing free college tuition to any student at a public university or community college. The price tag is estimated at $750 billion over 10 years, paid in part through imposing fees on stock trades, bonds and derivatives with the rest coming from state funding.

“One of the things that I’ve heard really resonates with voters is his now quite famous pledge to give free college tuition to anyone at a public university or community college,” Chelsea Clinton told reporters on Thursday. “Yet I think when people really look at how he would do that, it’s partly through (fees), but largely through expecting states to come up with hundreds of billions of dollars Day One.”

She said the bill for Wisconsin alone would hit $11 billion.