Democrat-leaning kids far more likely to discriminate against Trump supporters: poll

Over 40 hours of interviews with 10-year-olds in multiple states concluded that children who support former President Trump are more willing to visit the houses of families with opposing views than their Democratic-leaning counterparts.“Researchers found that Democrat-supporting kids drove polarization in a new study” CNN reported on Thursday, suggesting that while Democratic-leaning children are more willing to discriminate against Trump supporters, kids in red states are more likely to repeat “misinformation.”The findings were gleaned from more than 40 hours of interviews commissioned by CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” interviewing 80 elementary schoolers in Arizona, New Jersey, and Texas.The interviews, done with parents’ or guardians’ approval, were conducted in both the spring, before President Biden relinquished the nomination, and fall, long after Vice President Kamala Harris took the baton.In both seasons, Arizona State University associate professor, child development expert and media psychologist Asheley Landrum, spoke with the children and noticed some key differences between respondents. “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 explained. CNN host Anderson Cooper summarized on his show that “Overall, 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.”“Donald Trump, he did bad things, he’s like Hitler,” a Democrat-leaning boy said.When asked what the first word would be that pops into their head about the candidate they oppose, one child said it would be “liar” for Harris, while another said “pure evil” for Trump.Landrum also showed each child an image of two houses, one with a sign fo...