The 2016 presidential election, which took place on Nov. 8, has not only caused discussion among people across the United States, but at De Soto High School as well.

Despite the fact that most DHS students were not able to vote, a lot of them still had opinions on who they thought deserved the right to be the next president of the US.

Freshman Colin Campbell was rooting for Donald Trump, while junior Sam McGuire was hoping that Hillary Clinton would get the title of president. Both students predicted that Clinton would win the election.

“I was really expecting Hillary to win because of all of the information that the previous polls had given,” Campbell said.

Campbell stated the one of the main reasons that he liked Trump over Hillary was because of the “lowering of taxes, building up the middle class and smaller businesses and helping [the US] with trade” that Trump proposed to do.

For McGuire, Clinton was a great option because of her focus on the “social aspect” of the changes that are happening in America.

“I’m more for equality and pushing people to where their rights need to be, and I feel like that’s a strong goal that she [Clinton] had too,” McGuire said.

Like many other students, Campbell didn’t think that Hillary was horrible, just less qualified than Trump.

“I thought Hillary was an okay Candidate,” Campbell said. “I mean, she’s a smart person and she’s been in Washington for a while, so I was more for supporting Trump than hating on Hillary.”

On the other hand, McGuire is worried that, because Trump will be our new president, “bigotry will become more of an issue.”

Like McGuire, other people across the US have felt the same kind of tension and have expressed themselves through rioting.

“I think that the anti-Trump riots are justified, but I don’t really think that they’re going to do anything because Trump is already the president-elect,” Mcguire said, “but if that’s the way people want to voice their opinion about how they feel towards the president-elect, then that’s fine.”

Regardless of their stance, Campbell and McGuire both agree that certain media broadcasters had put the candidates in bad light.

“I definitely think that the media has portrayed Trump in a bad way,” Campbell said. “Although, the media really does portray basically anyone in a bad way, like with HIllary’s emails or some of the things that Trump said. They really just take anything, rephrase it and the put it out there.”

In spite of all of the controversy that the 2016 Presidential Election has caused, Trump will be inaugurated on Jan. 20 2017.