Jay Grossman

O&E Media

With an IQ level reaching the heights of genius, it’s not surprising that 10-year-old Lawson Fraser has plenty of opinions to share.

He’s convinced the growing national debt will sink the U.S. economy.

He expects Google stock to tumble.

He’s picking Donald Trump for president over Hillary Clinton.

“Even though I dislike him, I see Trump winning,” Fraser said of the November election. “Hillary Clinton has too much baggage and I really doubt Sanders supporters will go with her ... they’ll go with Trump because they’re very angry with America.”

Fraser is a fifth-grader at Cranbrook Schools. While he’s planning to spend part of his summer at a computer programming camp, he also wants to attend the Republican National Convention in Ohio. His career goal is to become a U.S. senator.

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If that doesn’t work out, he wants to be a stockbroker. He already manages his own portfolio.

“When he was born, he was immediately an old soul,” said his mother, Danielle Fraser. “He always liked hanging out with older people ... he’s just a very kind and generous person.”

Danielle Fraser said her son took an IQ test in first grade and scored 162, which places him in the company of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. The general IQ score of 95 percent of the population ranges between 70 and 130.

While she’s hesitant to talk about her son’s IQ score because she doesn’t want him to feel pressured by it, she admits it’s difficult keeping him occupied.

“We have to continually try to keep him engaged,” she said.

Now about those predictions ...

Fraser said he thinks Google stock will take a dive because of the company’s pricey preoccupation with Google glasses and autonomous cars.

“Everyone loves the idea of a driverless car — I promise you this is not going to take off,” he said matter-of-factly. "My generation will be driving in six years and I know for a fact that none of us will want a machine driving us. Personally, I think a flying car will do better than a driverless car.”

He started following politics in first grade and said for the most part, he’s a Republican at heart. He was hoping this year’s presidential race would come down to Marco Rubio and Bernie Sanders.

Now, he thinks Trump will win it all. He also thinks Trump will pick Ben Carson as his running mate.

As for the stock market, he meets with his broker every few months to go over his portfolio. He’s bullish on a company called Synthetic Genomics and predicts it will become “the next Apple.”

His favorite classes are science and math, and he’s working with a few of his buddies on developing a new video game.

He loves going to Cranbrook and admits he could do a little better in social studies.

“I’m bad with geography,” he said, smiling. “If you asked me where the Mississippi River runs, I’d probably tell you it runs in Mississippi. That’s all I know.”

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