On March 1, many of the southern states, and a few northern and western states, voted in presidential primaries and caucuses. The big winners were Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump ran the table in the south winning Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Trump also won Massachusetts and Vermont. Clinton won the south, and pulled of wins in Texas and Massachusetts. Bernie Sanders took Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and his home state of Vermont. Virginia went with the big winners of the night, but the City of Harrisonburg sided with Sanders and Rubio in their respective primaries. Many members of the senior class were eligible to participate.

Nicholas Deutsch voted in the GOP primary. He wasn’t planning on voting until his aunt talked to him.

“I was laying in my bed and my aunt came into my room. She was like you should probably go vote because it’s your civic duty,” Deutsch said. “I was like yeah, whatever, I guess I did register.”

Deutsch said he didn’t want Trump, so he decided to vote for Mike Huckabee, a candidate who dropped out after the Iowa Caucuses.  He now regrets his vote because of the former candidate’s stance on same-sex marriage.

“I am not voting for some bigot,” Deutsch said. “Who marginalizes another person due to their sexual preference.”

It was not just students who voted in the primary. Mentorship teacher Bethany Everidge voted in the Democratic Primary. This year she said it took her much longer to decide who she was going to vote for.

“It was right up till the day of,” Everidge said. “Unfortunately I think it took me longer to decide this time around because I think there were negative aspects of all the candidates…It was one of those things that I wanted to spend some more time reflecting on ultimately what I wanted in our next President.”