U.S. election: Students at Kamala Harris’s Canadian high school want her to run again

With a resounding Donald Trump victory, the result of the U.S. statesmanlike predetermination has been the speech of the municipality astatine Kamala Harris’s alma mater successful Montreal.

Westmount High School pupil Kadiatou Barrie, 14, was disappointed erstwhile she woke up Wednesday greeting to larn that Harris volition not instrumentality the apical occupation astatine the White House. But the teen says she respects the results.

“I thought Kamala Harris was what America needed, similar truly badly,” Barrie said. “But if they wanted Trump, I conjecture that’s what they want.”

Long earlier she became an American vice-president and statesmanlike candidate, Harris spent respective years successful the Canadian metropolis arsenic a teenager. She attended Westmount High for 3 years and graduated successful 1981.

Harris moved to Montreal truthful her parent Shyamala Gopalan, a bosom crab researcher, could enactment astatine the Lady Davis Institute of the city’s Jewish General Hospital. After an archetypal stint astatine a French-language school, Harris enrolled astatine Westmount.

The English Montreal School Board issued a connection congratulating Harris connected becoming vice-president-elect successful 2020 that included a photograph of students holding up hand-drawn posters speechmaking “Congratulations Kamala! Class of ’81!”

Barrie says she is among galore students astatine Harris’s aged stomping grounds who were hoping for a antithetic result this week.

But the seasoned politician’s vocation has been an inspiration for many, according to the teen.

“I’m precise arrogant of her,” Barrie said. “And she has inactive influenced galore young girls to pursuit their dreams and conscionable beryllium amazing.”

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Aminata Diallo, who besides attends Westmount High School, was intimately watching the predetermination results rotation successful with her parents erstwhile she had to spell to furniture Tuesday night. She hoped Harris would marque a comeback.

The result was what some unit and students talked astir crossed the schoolhouse the adjacent day, hours earlier Harris would present her concession speech successful which she urged Americans to not despair and “keep fighting” for the committedness of a brighter future.

“Everyone I talked to is disappointed. We were looking guardant to the alumni of our schoolhouse being the president of the United States,” 14-year-old Diallo said.

“Hopefully she runs again successful 2028.”

Those who walked the aforesaid hallways arsenic Harris are hopeful she volition 1 time beryllium astatine the helm of American enactment and consciousness a consciousness of pridefulness that she astir became president.

“I deliberation she should tally again successful the adjacent 4 years,” Barrie said.

— with files from The Canadian Press