{"id":6553,"date":"2024-09-06T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:17:58","slug":"students-share-thoughts-concerns-ahead-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/09\/06\/students-share-thoughts-concerns-ahead-of-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Students share thoughts, concerns ahead of presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 The race to the White House is on and Troy students’ votes will help decide the outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the election draws closer, some students have mixed feelings about the candidates and election process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My personal thoughts is that this election is really important for the next several years,” said student Samaaria Thompson. “What we need as an economy and what we need as a country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’ve kind of tried to stay neutral about it, I guess. I’ve really tried to not get myself super involved with it,” said Justin Wallace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students also have different ways they get their news about the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Personally, I go to google to just look it up or I go to my dad. He’s very into politics, so I’ll just ask him, hey is this something good,” Thompson explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I look at CNN on my phone. I look at the all the major news outlets that are unbiased, to an extent,” Wallace told TrojanVision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RELATED NEWS: <\/strong>NPHC hosts Voter Summit, helps students check voter status<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some students wish their candidates would answer their questions directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Why? Why did you decide to actually run? Especially now,” asked student Ricardo Valencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I would ask what’s in it for me? Having a definitive answer as to what we get out of what they’re trying to push on us is definitely a big thing for me,” Wallace explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candidates are addressing several pressing issues in this upcoming election, but what do students care about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I hope for a little more transparency. I think, recently, we’ve had a lot of people say a lot of things without doing a lot of things,” said Valencia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I hope to see change in financial aid and helping students and adults who are struggling financially,” said Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presidential election will take place Tuesday, Nov. 8. For more information about voting in Alabama, visit Alabama Votes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 The race to the White House is on and Troy students’ votes will help decide the outcome. <\/p>\n

As the election draws closer, some students have mixed feelings about the candidates and election process.<\/p>\n

“My personal thoughts is that this election is really important for the next several years,” said student…<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1695,1161,77],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-election-2024","tag-politics","tag-voting","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}