'Voting for Trump was not on my agenda': CNN platforms Democrat donor, Swarthmore prof as 'undecided voter' during Kamala Harris town hall

CNN platformed a left-wing political science professor who has donated consistently to Democrats and has written articles suggesting the overthrow of the Constitution as an "undecided voter" during the town hall with Kamala Harris on Wednesday. After the event she told reporters, "Voting for Trump was not on my agenda." 

During CNN's Pennsylvania town hall, the broadcast outlet gave the mic to people who claimed to be undecided voters and allowed them to ask pre-screened questions. One of those who CNN said was an "undecided voter" was Carol Nackenoff a left-wing political science professor from Swarthmore College. CNN's anchor Anderson Cooper, host of the event, introduced her as a "a registered Democrat, who says she’s leaning towards voting for [Harris]." 

Cooper then said that Nackenoff was "yet to make her final decision.” The professor then asked Harris, "If you could accomplish only one major policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?"  

Harris responded, “Well, there’s not just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. There’s a lot of work that needs to happen. But, let’s, let’s — I think that, maybe, part of this point, that I — how I think about it, is we’ve got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics, slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country,” she said, without answering the question.  

Although Nackenoff was presented as an "undecided voter" she has a history of boosting left-wing causes in her writings as well as with her wallet. After the town hall, she told the Chronicle of Higher Education that she was either voting for Harris or a third-party candidate or sitting out altogether over her concerns regarding the war between Israel and it's terrorist neighbors Hamas and Hezbollah.

"I am angry with the Democrats over Biden’s willingness to send all sorts of weapons to Netanyahu and his generals, which they are then using to kill an enormous number of civilians. I was hoping that Harris might put some daylight between her position and Biden’s on this issue," she told the outlet, adding, "But voting for Trump was not on my agenda." Addressing the notion that she was undecided between Trump and Harris, she said "There are people who have jumped to that conclusion." 

The professor has made over $2,500 in political donations since 2009, and only $25, one donation, went to the Republican Party platform WinRed, as reported by The Blaze. All others went to Democrats and one that went through the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue was allotted to Gen-Democracy, a political organization, which has on its strategy page "defeat Trump and the MAGA GOP in 2024." 

The college professor's curriculum vitae shows she believes in an overhaul of the Constitution, including "What Makes an American Constitutional Revolution, and Are We Having One," in 2021 as well as one from 2009 called, "A Constitution For Our Generation?" where she wrote in the article’s conclusion, "What the framers created does function like an iron cage with almost kryptonite-like bars. Is the Constitution, indeed, paralyzing democracy?"