evidence: In September, according to an analysis prepared by Landrum, when kids were asked how much they liked Harris or Trump on a five-point scale, the Democrat-leaning and blue-state kids were more likely to say they really liked Harris and really disliked Trump. Republican-leaning and red-state kids liked Trump but were neutral or even positive about Harris. [...] Trump, on the other hand, "is an established trigger," Iyengar said, and blue-state kids "have assimilated what their parents are telling them, and they’re pretty hostile to him." [...] Trump-leaning kids acknowledged the former president’s shortcomings with some interesting justifications. One boy argued that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both slave owners, "a really bad thing, but they still had two terms."