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‘A mix of emotions’: Election ignites hopes, fears and pressures in first-time presidential voters | VOICES OF THE YOUNG VOTERS
Rachel Hutchins stayed awake into the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, watching as Republican Donald Trump claimed Electoral College victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Hutchins, a self-described “capital ‘D’ Democrat,” had been a student at a boarding school in Indiana at the time. She was 16. “In 2016, there was a sense of helplessness,”…