Four years after the ending of his first term in 2020, Donald Trump has been elected to serve one last time.

Grover Cleveland is the only other president to serve a second term non-consecutively.

“We have somebody who actually knows what he’s doing,” junior Braedon Starnes said.

Several students are optimistic about the next four years, carrying on their hope from when Trump was elected president in 2016.

“I remember what it was like while he was president,” junior Shelby Jones said. “The gas prices were lower, and everything ran a lot smoother. I don’t care for how he acts, but he runs the country like a business, and that’s what we need.”

Through two assassination attempts – Trump suffered an ear injury when he was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13 – Trump continued campaigning.

“At first, I didn’t believe it was real,” Starnes said. “I thought it was just a media thing. Then I saw it, and I was like, ‘whoa, that’s crazy.’ The thing I was impressed with the most is how he got up after that. He didn’t stand down. It was patriotic.”

Starnes, a member of AFJROTC, also believes that the Jan. 6 riots in 2020 were extreme.

“As a Republican, I do believe that they did the wrong thing,” Starnes said. “I would never do something like that. There’s always crazy people, there’s always extremists, whether they’re Democrat or Republican.”

Others would vote for Trump solely because they don’t support Kamala Harris.

“He’s the lesser of two evils. He’s done it before, so of course, he knows what he’s doing. I don’t think he’d run the country to the ground; Kamala would,” senior Ashlynn Sutton said.

Some support politicians by simply putting a sign in their yard.

Others take it to the next level, like junior Hunter Carsten, who dressed up as Trump for Halloween.

“I can do a pretty good impression of him,” Carsten said. “Everybody told me I should do it. I had a lot of fun.”

Trump won, so what’s in it for you?

“I will keep your families safe, I will defend religion, I will bring jobs, wealth and factories back,” Trump said on Oct. 30 in a Pennsylvania rally.

Trump plans to fight drug cartels and eliminate drug overdose deaths.

He is passionate about “free, honest and lawful elections,” according to donaldjtrump.com.

CBS News has found that his plan to deport millions of illegal immigrants would cost “hundreds of billions.”

“My family immigrated from Korea legally, so I think borders should be closed,” Starnes said.

Trump has long claimed he won the 2020 election and filed 63 lawsuits to “stop the steal.” It culminated in an attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6.

JD Vance, now vice president, denied on Oct. 16 at a rally that Trump lost the 2020 election.

Vance, a controversial pick for Vice President, entertained many at the debate.

“I thought JD Vance did a great job, a little unfair, but I thought he remained cool, and he represented the Republican party well,” senior Drew Kemp said.

Vance is officially the youngest vice president in history.

Though Trump denied it for the past four years, he admitted on Sept. 4 in a podcast with Lex Fridman that he lost “by a whisker.” He later told Joe Rogan in October that he didn’t lose.

Now we wait until inauguration day.

“If you want to end this disaster, get out and vote,” Trump said at a Pennsylvania Rally on Oct. 30.

According to the New York Times, 1,281,413 Kansans voted; 735,428 were for Trump.

At around midnight of election day, the results weren’t official, but predictable with Trump’s win.