The youth of the nation had a hilarious response to Vice President Kamala Harris when CNN asked them what they thought about the Democratic nominee.
CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” partnered with an Arizona State University psychologist and a political scientist, Asheley Landrum, to interview 4th and 5th graders about the November election.
Asked to describe Harris in one word, a young boy promptly replied, “Liar.”
Another child, when questioned whether Harris or former President Donald Trump seemed more selfish, pointed at Harris and remarked that “girls are a little dramatic sometimes.”
CNN: What’s first thing that pops into your head when you hear Kamala Harris?
Awesome kid: Liar.
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Even kids know. pic.twitter.com/BhnRm7HTVB
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 27, 2024
When a black girl was asked if she would like to see a black woman become president, she said it “would be good,” but her “vote is still kinda on Trump.”
The study, which was based on over 40 hours of interviews with 10-year-olds in states across the nation, found that children supporting Trump were more likely to hang out at the homes of liberal families than their left-wing peers.
80 children from Arizona, New Jersey, and Texas were interviewed before Biden dropped out of the race and again after Harris took over.
CNN: What’s first thing that pops into your head when you hear Kamala Harris?
Awesome kid: Liar.
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Even kids know. pic.twitter.com/BhnRm7HTVB
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 27, 2024
“Researchers found that Democrat-supporting kids drove polarization in a new study,” CNN said during the segment.
The network noted that children from Texas, were likely to parrot “misinformation,” while liberal kids were more likely to have show prejudice towards them.
CNN: “Which one do you think is more selfish?”
Child: “Probably Kamala Harris because girls are a little bit dramatic sometimes” pic.twitter.com/5Gk16xMZwq
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) September 26, 2024
“Democrat-leaning kids were approximately 9 times more likely (or 800% more likely) to express negative emotions (nervous/worried or angry/frustrated) about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were likely to express about Kamala Harris,” the study discovered.
Cooper said that “the biggest finding” was that “children in the study were polarized, with what researchers called more extreme responses from the blue state kids than the red state kids.”
At one point, the elementary schoolers were shown an image of two houses—one with a Republican sign and one with a Democratic sign—and asked if they would be okay playing at the house of a family supporting the opposing party.
CNN reported that most children were okay with visiting families on the opposite side of the aisle.
However, a much higher number of liberal 10-year-olds refused to hang out with friends who came from Trump supporting families.
This was in sharp contrast to child Trump supporters, who the vast majority of were not unwilling to visit the homes of their Harris supporting peers.
One of the true-blue children imagined there might be an argument if they went to a Trump-supporting family’s home, which could explode into “like a food fight or something.”
When a black child was asked if his liberal parents would be okay with him visiting a Trump supporter’s home, replied, “No, because they know he does not like Black people, so they would not be happy to see me.”
Another liberal pre-tween echoed the sentiment, stating his family wouldn’t let him to visit a Trump-supporting house.
“No. No way. Because, like, my mom and dad don’t like Donald Trump at all. Not a single bit,” he said.
In stark contrast, when a right-leaning fifth-grader was asked if he play at the home of Harris supporters, he said, “I think it would be fine, it’s just about the personality.”
Landrum offered an explanation for why Democratic-leaning children were so unlikely to cross the aisle to play with their Republican supporting peers.
“Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure, and it‘s very possible that the kids are reacting to their parents reacting to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we‘ve seen before,” she told the liberal network.
CNN interviewed a bunch of kids about Donald Trump and Harris and noticed red staters were more politically tolerant than blue staters, which they tried to explain away with Psychologist Asheley Landrum, “in part that could be because they don’t know that much about her” pic.twitter.com/fkZPzjgg28
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 26, 2024
“So do the red state kids hold as strong of attitudes? Well, not when we‘re talking about Kamala Harris, in part that could be because they don‘t know that much about her,” she added.