A CNN segment featuring children talking about the presidential election has supporters of former President Donald Trump in stitches, as students are asked to react to a photo of Vice President Kamala Harris.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his production team teamed up with a psychologist from Arizona State University and a political scientist to interview 4th and 5th graders about the upcoming election.
When one young boy is asked to describe Harris in one word, he replies, ‘Liar’ without hesitation.
When one girl is asked which candidate would be more selfish, one child replies ‘probably her’ and points at Harris, pointing out that ‘girls are a little bit dramatic sometimes.’
CNN feature on children reacting to the presidential election
The responses from the children varied, partially because of their location as the study interviewed students from New Jersey and Texas.
When one black girl was asked if she wanted to see a black woman become president, she replied that ‘it would be good’ but that ‘my vote is still kinda on Trump.’
Another girl noted that, Harris was ‘pretty and stuff but I just don’t think a woman would be right for a president,’ noting that a male president would be ‘stronger.’
Other students believed that Trump would be ‘brave’ and ‘tougher’ than Harris because he survived an assassination attempt.
The feature also included an ’emoji chart’ to describe how they felt about each candidate which brought mixed results for both candidates.
But the video also included some damaging assessments from some of the children for Trump, with one child describing him as a ‘convicted felon.’
Cooper noted that CNN received ‘more extreme’ responses from blue state kids in New Jersey who described Trump as Hitler or a dictator, or even bringing up January 6th as a way to disqualify him.
‘The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were abut nine time more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris, CNN , describing Trump as a ‘polarizing figure’ in American households.
