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I feel like that map may be a little misleading. Just because a state doesn’t have a statutory age limit on treating a child as an adult doesn’t mean that is common practice. In most states, the default is that any crime committed by a suspect under the age of 18 is handled by the juvenile court system, where penalties are far less severe, unless some special nature of the crime prompts a court to try the accused as an adult (eg murder or violent rape). A few states set the juvenile cutoff a little earlier.
So it’s more like “we reserve the option to prosecute a child as an adult, but we almost never do”. http://www.jjgps.org/jurisdictional-boundaries
I don’t think that’s clear at all. He clearly doesn’t want anyone to think he’s directly responsible for it, and honestly that much is probably true (seriously, does anyone think he’s forward-thinking enough to come up with any of it?). But I don’t think he’s said at all that he wouldn’t go along with it if elected.