After a hotly-contested election season and a good deal of nastiness from both leading candidates, Donald Trump finally emerged as the victor over Hillary Clinton in the wee hours of this morning after most national newspapers and news broadcasts had Clinton leading the election as polls started to close earlier in the evening.  When the night was over, Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump acquired enough states to be named the President-Elect.

Students at Cinnaminson had voted Trump as the winner in their own mock election by a narrow margin earlier, declaring him the winner by a 41%-39% gap.  However, the victory seemed to split along the gender gap in terms of the reaction to the winner at school today.

Some young men celebrated the victory of President-Elect Donald Trump.

“I’m happy with the outcome and I’m looking forward to Trump being the president,” said senior Andrew Halecki.

Another senior felt similarly.

“Hillary’s corrupt and Trump deserved to win,” Christian Massara said.

Sophomore Joe Sireci had some polarizing views about Clinton and was happy about the outcome of the election.

“Since Hillary Clinton killed innocent Americans and deleted many, many emails, I could tell she was not fit to be the president,” Joe said.

Faculty members were more muted in their feelings, but looked forward to seeing what is to come from the new president-elect.

“I’m glad it’s over and it was very interesting, and I hope this country can come together once again,” Mrs. Luaces said.

Mr. Bond said, “Time will tell whether the country will be in a good spot or not a good spot.”

Female students seemed to strike a different tune than their male counterparts in their feelings about the election the next day.

“I’m disappointed because I feel like our country is taking a step backwards in terms of rights of lots of minorities, women and the LGBTQ+ community,” senior Audrey Bishop commented.

Ela Ozdem was more blatant when she said, “I don’t know why a lot of people like Donald Trump.”

Senior Karen Clark tried to gain perspective on the day after Trump’s victory.

“I guess it’s confusing (to me) on why so many people would vote for Trump, but I guess I see where they’re coming from,” she said.

Other students felt ambivalent the day after the contentious election finally ended.

“I don’t like both of them, so I would have just voted for Gary Johnson,” sophomore Rashad Raymond said.

“I really don’t care (about the election), every candidate was just awful and I don’t care enough about politics to have learned anything about any of the candidates.  If I could have voted, I am not sure that I would have because I do not know enough about politics that I should have the power to vote,” senior Joe Saxton said.