CNN: What’s the first word that pops into you head when you hear the name Kamala Harris?
Child 1: Liar.
CNN: What’s the word that pops into you head when you hear the name Donald Trump?
Child 2: Pure evil.
CNN: Which one do you think is more selfish?
Child 3: Probably Kamala… pic.twitter.com/ppQEqrU6TL
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 26, 2024
Child 1: Liar.
CNN: What’s the word that pops into you head when you hear the name Donald Trump?
Child 2: Pure evil.
CNN: Which one do you think is more selfish?
Child 3: Probably Kamala Harris because girls are a little bit dramatic sometimes.
Child 4: Donald Trump, he’s given his life and his heart.
Child 5: Kamala even shook hands with Mr. Trump to greet him before the debate started which is pretty kind when you’re going against your opponent.
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.’
American kids are fine with a black woman being President BUT NOT KAMALA HARRIS.
Maybe Michelle Obama would have been a better Democratic pick? pic.twitter.com/OJQtUJfxRM
— #OfficeOfTheNigerianCitizen (@kcemenike) September 26, 2024
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.