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Kid Presidents Plan Their Platforms

audio by Phoebe Petrovic

video by Margaret Thompson

For the past two weeks, we've been hearing a lot from polls, pundits, and politicos about what they would do as president. Now we’re turning the mic over to the leaders of the future. In Philadelphia, the site of the DNC, the students took part in a Mighty Writers’ Essay contest. The subject was: what I would do if I were president. We caught up with some children at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club here in Cleveland and asked them the same question. Here’s what they said.