AITAH for covering my opponent’s campaign poster in my election video?
Hi, I’m currently running for class president at my school, and this is something I’ve wanted to do for a really long time. Last year I didn’t even submit an application for ASB, so this year I made sure to apply and actually put myself out there.
A lot of my mutuals are also running, and honestly I can feel some tension and animosity because of it. One of the people I’m running against has already been class president for the past two school years. We aren’t close, but we have mutual friends. We all also picked our own vice presidents to run with.
The week before elections, his VP told me to my face TWICE within like 5 minutes that they were going to win. It honestly discouraged me because of how confident and cocky it came across, but I still decided to keep running because I didn’t want to back down.
For campaigns, we had to film a video. I filmed like 3 different versions just to have options. I ended up posting some clips I wasn’t going to use plus a snippet of my main video edit on social media. My campaign theme is Mean Girls themed.
In one of the clips, I covered one of their campaign posters for a second. I genuinely was not thinking when I did it. There was no malicious intent behind it at all.
The next day I heard that his VP was upset, so after first period I went looking for her to apologize and clear things up face to face. We talked everything out, she even hugged me after, and then we acted normal during our second period together. She told me I should also talk to the presidential candidate, and I agreed because I wanted to apologize to both of them.
I texted him apologizing, but his response kind of caught me off guard. Then today I heard that apparently I came off as “aggressive” when I talked to them, which honestly confused me because I genuinely wasn’t trying to be aggressive at all, and neither I nor my friends thought I sounded that way. I was just trying to clear up the misunderstanding in person instead of avoiding it.
Now I’m overthinking the whole situation and wondering if maybe I handled it badly without realizing it.
AITA?