U.S. election: Students at Kamala Harriss Canadian high school want her to run again [Video]

With a resounding Donald Trump victory, the outcome of the U.S. presidential election has been the talk of the town at Kamala Harris’s alma mater in Montreal.

Westmount High School student Kadiatou Barrie, 14, was disappointed when she woke up Wednesday morning to learn that Harris will not take the top job at the White House. But the teen says she respects the results.

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

Long before she became an American vice-president and presidential candidate, Harris spent several years in the Canadian city as a teenager. She attended Westmount High for three years and graduated in 1981.

Harris moved to Montreal so her mother Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher, could work at the Lady Davis Institute of the city’s Jewish General Hospital. After an initial stint at a French-language school, Harris enrolled at Westmount.