Staff Writer ~ Meixue Castaneda

If I were 18 and could vote, I would vote Hillary Clinton. I would vote for her because her policies are more thorough and ethical when it comes to education, economy, immigration, and gun control. For education she is focusing on making college more affordable for students, and making it more accessible to apply to a four-year university. She is planning to ease college debts on college graduates. This policy is important to me because within a year I will have to apply to college, and my most concerns are finance, and how I can afford my college education.  As for the economy Hillary Clinton is planning raise taxes to those who are higher income, there wouldn’t be a great impact on the economy if this were to occur, the revenue that is made out of tax payers would still substantially be the same. For immigration policies, Hillary supports the Dream Act and those who are undocumented immigrants should have access to citizenship. As for gun control she wants to strengthen the policies that come with accessing guns. This is very important since in the past recent years, gun control has not been enforced and shoot outs have increased.

This Presidency election honestly has been one of the most social focuses on the media. Both candidates are racing to the final to be the ones chosen to run the country, in a few days; and it can be kind of alarming as the due date approaches. Trump for president, has me questioning the future of America, and leaves me with a sense of wariness. His claims about building a wall across the border of Mexico, has me wondering that most of his claims and policies are not logical, restricting access to the most diverse trading places in the country, will not only negatively impact the economy, but will take away the diversity that makes America. Trump’s presidency has instilled fear in first generation and undocumented immigrants.

Staff Writer ~ Carlos Salazar-Antunez

I feel both candidates are not good at all. I think both of them are just not president material. Donald Trump started off bad by stating, “When Mexico sends its people. They’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Trump also said, “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.” These statements outraged the Hispanic community along with others because Trump was basically insulting the Hispanic community and giving them a bad name by calling them rapists, drug runners, and criminals. Donald Trump is not a man of his word. He says a negative statement then changes his mind makes a “positive statement.” For example, Trump said that 80% of shootings in New York are caused by blacks, then says, “I have a relationship with blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with blacks.”  Fake. Trump also gives Muslims a bad name. He wants to ban Muslim people because they are “terrorists.”

Hillary Clinton is different from Donald Trump but I feel she is not good enough to be the first woman president. Hillary is a liar for saying that she turned in all her personal emails to the government and it turned out that she did not. This raises suspicion to everyone. What does she have to hide?

Staff Writer ~ Joshua Haydon

If I was able to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, I would not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.  I would not vote for Donald Trump because though he  likes to speak his mind,  he sometimes says a little bit too much and what I mean by that, is that he comes off as racist and also disrespectful to women.

When he was running president from the very beginning he was racist towards Mexicans by saying “Mexico is not bringing their best.  They’re bringing drugs, crimes, and rapists.”  He has also been  racist towards Muslims and other races and has even said he will deport them back to their countries because they are “taking are jobs.”

In addition, he has been disrespectful to women.  For example, he was disrespectful towards Megan Kelly by saying “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her whatever.” This is a clear example of his superiority complex over women.

Now Hillary Clinton I would not vote for her earthier because she is sketchy and she is too sneaky. What I mean is that she had this email incident and the FBI investigated but they did not charge her for any criminal charges. I find that sketchy because we don’t know what was in those emails, and the FBI is not looking into any of it.  I don’t want a president that is sketchy.

In my opinion who should be the real president is Bernie Sanders. In his debates against Hillary Clinton, he had some really great points like he wanted to make college free to everyone because education should not have a price and I totally agree because people don’t even have enough money to go to college. I say Bernie Sanders should have been president because he was the one that wanted to make America great again not a president that is a racist or disrespectful to women or a president that is so sketchy that the FBI has to get involved.

Staff Writer ~ Paeng Santibouth

In my opinion, I do not like Hillary or Donald and I would not vote for either of them because I see them as bad influences for America. First off, I do not Trump because he says horrible things. In fact no one like him should be put as a candidate to run for President. Trump is a racist and he has put down other people to get ahead. For example, he made fun of Hillary when she collapsed in front of her car saying “she could not even make it to her car.” In my opinion you should not have to bring down others to get people to be on your side. Also saying he’s going to build a wall and send immigrants back to their home town is ridiculous because he does not know how hard some people have worked to even get into America. And shutting out many amazing cultures is just going to hurt America.  All the beautiful cultures is what makes America great.

For Hillary I don’t have much against her. I do not really pay attention to the election that much but what from I know is she is a bit shady and has been accused of lying multiple times. I would not want a President who lies about things they are going to do for America. I’m pretty sure most Americans would rather have a truthful leader then a liar. In my honest opinion I want Barack Obama to stay as President because he is an amazing President and role model. Recently I saw this video of President Obama at a rally and there was a Trump supporter there yelling at him saying rude things.  Obama did not do anything.  He respected the man’s opinion and also said “he looks like he was in the military and he was an elder so we have to respect our elders.” That’s the kind of person I want to run America. A person who is respectful, someone who accepts everyone for who they are, and etc.

Staff Writer ~ Trung To

There’s no good choice for who should be president, and that’s a little unfair because Bernie Sanders lost way back when. I obviously wouldn’t want Trump to run, but I truly believe that Hillary is the latter that America may have to choose. It’s true that the both of them seem very unfit to run for this presidential election, but if I was able to vote between these two I would choose Hillary over Trump, for a variety of reasons.

Let me begin with how Trump acts towards Hispanics, Asians, and women.  He has disrespected women, and has come off as racist toward minorities. His logic is literally nonsense, and his rallies encourage violence. He has said immature things and has promised to build the so-called wall to prevent Mexicans from coming in and even stating they’d pay for it.

Hillary has had her share fair of shady things happen. One being the deletion of those emails that were extremely confidential, and she used her own private server to view confidential information, instead of viewing them on a government secured server. I think Hillary’s trying to appeal to the younger generation way too much , with her terrible use of slang and including of memes in her debates and rallies. She doesn’t seem to be so content about immigration as much as Trump, but she did say she was going to establish another comprehensive immigration reform like the past. Like Trump is repetitive with his answers, Hillary often times avoids the questions altogether and goes off on a tangent about some other topic.

In the end, I’d be okay with Hillary as president, because she’d be the first female president, and she obviously has more common sense than Trump does, and would hopefully do everything she says she will.