In these last couple months, the presidential election has been a suspenseful race – a one on one battle: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump.

Every four years, an election for President of the United States is held. During the general election, Americans head to the polls to cast their vote for president.

In this election, there were 200 million registered voters – which soared to new heights. There was a significant about of rise in voting in this election that surprised plenty Americans.

Even so, with 200 million voters, over 90 million eligible voters did not vote in this election. Both young and old voted on Tuesday of November 8^th, voting for the president of their choosing and legalizations of laws.

Both of the students who were interviewed for this story had not registered to vote due to state registration circumstances.

Barack Obama, who won both presidential terms and has been the Commander in Chief for the last eight years, will begin to hand over his reign to Donald Trump – who won the presidency election which surprised both the media and pollsters.

The turnout of the election left many people furious – especially at Clinton’s party whose supporters were left tearful, upset, and shocked. Clinton supporters left the New York election night party with their fists clenched, and heads down with their hope for having the first female president slip through their fingers.

AIC senior Kadeija Mendes does not believe the election was rightly justified.

“I think everything was like a set up because I felt like Hillary was winning throughout the whole process then at the end, Trump just won out of nowhere,” Mendes said. “It’s crazy.”

“You know it goes by the popular vote and the electoral vote in all states, but I feel like there is no point in having the popular vote and having the people of the country vote if it doesn’t count because when it comes down to it, the electoral votes are the only ones that count,” she continued. “That’s what they look at.”

Mendes left it at that.

Lauren Witherspoon, a sophomore at AIC, somewhat expresses the same feeling with a more neutral approach, expressing her shock at the announcement of Trump’s victory.

“In my opinion, I didn’t really expect to him actually be the President,” Witherspoon said. “I was like, kind of surprised at first, but then again I stayed on neutral ground ’cause I didn’t like neither of them as our choices. I was like, ‘okay, whatever happens, happens’, but I was just really surprised that he actually won.

“I didn’t expect that; especially when Hillary has more experience in politics than he does. He just randomly came up out of nowhere,” Witherspoon stated.

Many millennials who do not favor Trump jokingly or in all seriousness believe it is a terrible decision to have him as a President and lost hope for this country’s future. Asking Witherspoon if she has any hope for the future of the U.S., she replies: “Honestly I am just expecting a lot of changes. I wouldn’t say hopeful but I wouldn’t say anything too bad. I’m pretty much going by the flow; it’s not like we’ve never had any bad Presidents.”

It is true. It is not like we never had any Presidents who received backlash for their decisions, actions and comments.

Trump promises things he possibly could not reach, or promises things that sound just downright absurd, as well as making sexist comments on certain subjects that has brought negativity to this Republican.

Although it is good to have positive thoughts in making our country better, he, as a human being and political leader should be careful with these controversial subjects.

Many questions have been asked:

Will he succeed in improving America? 

Will he actually turn out not-so-bad?

Or will he ruin this country with poor decisions?

Only time will tell.