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Trump supporter on CNN, stranger to mom at home

Trump supporter on CNN, stranger to mom at home Kathleen "Kit" Lord's failing eyesight makes it hard to see him, even when her 65-year-old son's face fills up a TV screen. Jeffrey Lord is scheduled to be on CNN every weeknight now through Election Day, trying to find balance between political analysis and caring for his elderly mother. In public, local supporters cheer when his name is mentioned during Trump rallies and ask for selfies when they see him in the supermarket. Last Friday she was the cogent mom who raised him, the lifelong Republican woman who wasn't afraid to share her views in liberal Northampton, Mass. In that New England town where Lord grew up, Kit worked as a secretary at Smith College and his father, Neville "Buzz" Lord, was a hotel manager who also held the city council seat once occupied by Calvin Coolidge. The most notable parley came during the winter primary run when Lord said the KKK was the "military, terrorist arm of the Democratic Party." Liberal commentator Van Jones quickly responded: "The things that Donald Trump has done, and not just in this race, are horribly offensive...There is a dark underside here...he is whipping up and tapping into and pushing buttons that are very, very frightening to me and to a lot of people." Jones views a lot of Lord's controversial comments as a strategy that oversimplifies history to make Republicans look good and Democrats look bad. Fellow CNN analyst Paul Begala, a Hillary Clinton supporter and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, also finds common ground with Lord because of their professional backgrounds. Both men were chosen for their past political experiences and recent analysis of the 2016 presidential election. Lord, an F&M alum, was a political director to former President Ronald Reagan and also worked for former U.S.

 

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