Kamala Harris wasn’t treated with kid gloves.
Fourth graders savaged the vice president and Democratic nominee as part of a “study” conducted by professors at Stanford University and Arizona State University and reported Wednesday by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“What’s the first word that pops into your head when you hear the name Kamala Harris?” asked Arizona State professor Asheley Landrum.
“Liar,” a Texas boy fired back without skipping a beat.
“It’d be good for us to have a black woman as president for the first time in history, but my vote’s kind of still on Trump,” added a black girl, who was definitely not of voting age.
“I just don’t think a woman would be right for our president,” another Texas girl said.
“Why do you think a woman wouldn’t be right for president, in your view?” Landrum asked.
“I think ’cause only boys have been president before and that they would be more stronger,” the girl responded.
Asked for one word to describe Harris, the girl called her “selfish,” explaining that “girls are a little dramatic sometimes.”
Landrum is described by CNN as a “psychologist,” but teaches at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Stanford political scientist Shanto Iyengar was the other researcher involved in the study, which does not appear to have been published yet.
Landrum donated $20 to Harris’ super PAC in July, while the study was being conducted. She told The Post in an email Friday that the survey “was not an academic study” and she had been “recruited” by CNN producers “to collaborate on an investigative report examining children’s attitudes toward the candidates running for president.”
She said there would be a subsequent white paper issued and was “happy to disclose” donations to the Harris campaign effort and her status as a registered independent in Arizona.
Iyengar donated $550 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Landrum conducted interviews with 10- and 11-year-olds in New Jersey, Texas and Arizona in May and September, finding that kids in blue states like New Jersey gave “more extreme responses” when asked questions about the 2024 election.
Kids in the Democrat-leaning states were nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Trump, 78, than those in Republican-leaning states were to express negative emotions about Harris, 59.
“What’s the first word that pops into your head when you hear the name Donald Trump?” Landrum asked in another interview.
“Pure evil,” a New Jersey girl responds.
“Donald Trump is giving his life and his heart,” a Texas girl disagreed when asked about the 45th president in May, two months before an assassination attempt against him.
“Do you think it’s okay for somebody who is a convicted felon to become president of the United States?” the boy who called Harris a “liar” is asked at another point.
“Yes,” he replies, without reservation.
Others — in deep-blue New Jersey — described Trump as “brave” for surviving “a gun shot” at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., July 13.
Nearly one-third of kids, though, seemed focused on Trump’s status as a “convicted felon” following his “hush money” case in Manhattan, the sentencing of which was recently pushed back until after Election Day.
