4-Year-Old Clinton Supporter Crushed When His Mom Doesn't Vote for His Candidate

His reaction was caught on video.

ByABC News
February 10, 2016, 1:04 PM

— -- A 4-year-old boy experienced his first political disappointment when he realized he couldn't vote for Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, and it was all caught on video.

Aiden Gerety, of Manchester, New Hampshire, went to the polls with his mother and, when he overheard his mom had not voted for the Democratic candidate, he started crying because he couldn't vote for her himself.

"I want to vote for Hillary Clinton," Aiden is heard saying in a video his mother, Amanda Gerety, took of the moment.

"I think he must have seen a commercial, one of her ads. I don’t know where it came from, it was very random," Gerety told ABC News, declining to share who she voted for. "He got very upset and said 'No, I want to vote for Hillary Clinton' ... and he got more and more upset about it."

Clinton ended up losing the country's first primary to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by about 20 percentage points after a close victory in the Iowa caucuses.

Gerety recorded the video of the heartbroken Aiden for her husband and family members, and then decided to post it online. In mere hours, the video has gotten more than 2,000 views on Facebook, plus hundreds more on YouTube.

"I thought it’d be funny to show my family and people started sharing and sharing," the 39-year-old nurse said.

So how did she calm young Aiden down? "I literally had to pretend to call the place to tell them I wanted to change my vote to get the tears to stop!" Gerety wrote in the Facebook post.