An American citizen as well as a resident of Mitchell voted for Hillary Clinton and says he was surprised when he saw the US election results Wednesday morning.

Connor Gosen grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and says he was able to register as an absentee voter. Gosen notes when deciding who to vote for he knew they both had negative attributes but looked at who had more experience, had been in the limelight previously, and had made the hard decisions before.

Steinbach Pistons defensive player Ryan Carlson from Hermantown, Minnesota agrees with Gosen and says, "I guess you can say I'm a little afraid of someone so new to this. Hillary had a lot of experience and I felt like she could have done a good job."

Gosen says the majority of America may be in shock because, although Donald Trump won the majority of electoral votes, Clinton had the majority of overall votes.

"The American system is a representative republic and not a democracy. Due to the way the electoral college is set up, those big states, they can't push the little states around. It's so that these big urban centres can't, kind of, take control just because they have more people. It's not the first time it's happened and it's still pretty close."

He notes with Trump and the Republicans in the White House there will be a few changes seen. 

"What's going to happen, and what's going to affect everyone, is that now the White House will have a Republican president, the House of Congress is run by Republicans, and now the Senate is still run by Republicans. So, when Obama was running the country he was a Democrat president but he was kind of against two Republican houses, and now Republicans control everything."

Gosen says he doesn't know whether this will cause any of Barack Obama's progress to be changed, but if and when they decide to pass something it will be easier because they now have the majority in every house. He notes his home state of Minnesota was won by Clinton, but adds national ruling will still play a part and have an effect on those living there, including the rest of his family.

Looking towards the next four years, Gosen says he's trying to look at the situation in a positive light.

"One thing I took away was, surprisingly, a tid-bit from Trump's acceptance speech where he said, 'we owe Clinton a very major debt of gratitude to her for her service in our country.' Coming from Trump, that's uncharacteristic, that's unusual. I'm trying to cling onto just little things like that, uncharacteristic hopeful things, and we never know what he's going to do."

He adds Trump is the first non-politician to ever win a presidency election and thinks there are a lot of surprises to come. Gosen says, Trump as president of the United States is not the end of the world.

"This is a very clear example that it is important to vote. No matter what country you're in, you should vote, it's your right."