CNN asks 10 and 11-year-old children to describe Kamala Harris in one word and the answers are brutal
A CNN segment featuring children talking about the presidential election has left supporters of former President Donald Trump in stitches as students are asked to react to a photo of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Anderson Cooper and his CNN production team teamed up with an Arizona State University psychologist and a political scientist to interview fourth- and fifth-grade students about the upcoming election.
When a young boy is asked to describe Harris in one word, he answers without hesitation, “Liar.”
When a girl is asked which candidate would be more selfish, one child replies “probably her” and points to Harris, noting that “girls can be a little dramatic sometimes.”
CNN article about children reacting to the presidential election
The children’s responses varied, partly because of their location, as the study interviewed students from New Jersey and Texas.
When a 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 a little bit on Trump.”
Another girl commented that Harris was “pretty and all, but I just don’t think a woman would be right for a president,” and noted that a male president would be “stronger.”
Other students believed Trump would be “braver” 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 yielded mixed results for both candidates.
But the video also included some damaging assessments for Trump from some children, 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 brought up January 6 as a way to disqualify him.
“The study found that these Democratic-leaning children were as much as nine times as likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican children were about Kamala Harris, CNN, who described Trump as a “polarizing figure” in American households.