Thousands protest in New York and Washington – as it happened

Here is a summary of the key recent developments:

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  Republicans on Saturday appeared close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for Donald Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January. With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Friday night that Republican Jeff Hurd had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado’s third congressional district.

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  Voter rights groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona supreme court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Campaign Legal Center asked the state’s high court in an emergency petition that the original 5pm Sunday deadline be extended up to four days after a voter is sent notice of a problem.

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  Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won reelection to Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, the Associated Press reports. Her victory gives the Democrats 201 House seats to Republicans’ 212 as the final votes are tallied to determine which party will control the House with 218 votes. Gluesenkamp Perez was first elected to the Senate two years ago when she won a close race for a seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat in more than a decade.

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  Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11am ET. The meeting will be the first between the current and former president after the 2024 election.

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  Trump announced the formation of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, which will be chaired by real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler. As the president-elect begins to select his cabinet, he shared on Truth Social today that the administration will not include either former UN ambasssador Nikki Haley or former secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

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  Thousands of New Yorkers gathered for the Protect Our Futures march, protesting Trump’s re-election as president from outside Trump Tower, as more demonstrators gathered outside the offices of the Heritage Foundation (which authored the controversial Project 2025) in Washington DC.

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  A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after she instructed her team to avoid dispatching aid to houses with Trump signs following Hurricane Milton.

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  More than two months after the deadline to sign presidential transition paperwork passed, Trump’s incoming administration still has not signed the agreement with the General Services Administration. The agreements coordinating the transition, which were due 1 September, mandate that the incoming president agree to an ethics plan and limit and disclose private donations.

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  A record 13 women will lead their states as governor next year, breaking the previously held record of 12 set after the 2022 election.

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Voter rights groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona supreme court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems, the Associated Press reports.

n The American Civil Liberties Union and the Campaign Legal Center asked the state’s high court in an emergency petition that the original 5 p.m. Sunday deadline be extended up to four days after a voter is sent notice of a problem.

n The groups argued in the petition that “tens of thousands of Arizonans stand to be disenfranchised without any notice, let alone an opportunity to take action to ensure their ballots are counted.”

n “Because these ballots have not even been processed, Respondents have not identified which ballots are defective and have not notified voters of the need to cure those defects,” the petition stated.

n Arizona law says people who vote by mail should receive notice of problems with their ballots, such as a signature that doesn’t match the one on file, and get a chance to correct it in a process known as “curing.”

n The groups’ petition noted that as of Friday evening more than 250,000 mail-in ballots had not yet been verified by signature. The bulk of them were in Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa County.

n Just under 200,000 early ballots remained to be processed as of Saturday, according to estimates on the Arizona secretary of state’s Office website.

n Election officials in Maricopa did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

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Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won reelection to Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, the Associated Press reports. Her victory gives the Democrats 201 House seats to Republicans’ 212 as the final votes are tallied to determine which party will control the House with 218 votes.

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Gluesenkamp Perez was first elected to the Senate two years ago when she won a close race for a seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat in more than a decade.

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Protesters from the Women’s March gathered outside the offices of the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC this afternoon to criticize the conservative thinktank that published Project 2025. The rally was organized to advocate for abortion access and “as a chance to build community and power in the wake of the 2024 election”, a Women’s March spokesperson told CNN.

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The Women’s March intends to hold another demonstration in Washington DC on 18 January, two days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as president.

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Women‘s March participants in Washington, DC, are protesting in front of the Heritage Foundation, the group behind Project 2025. Today is a small protest, the big one is planned for Jan. 18, 2025, two days before Donald Trump‘s inauguration. pic.twitter.com/kPaWrQ0OkV

— Carla Bleiker (@cbleiker) November 9, 2024

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With Donald Trump's landslide win, the future of reproductive rights in the U.S. is in disarray. This is one of many women's marches planned before the inauguration on January 20, taking place in front of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. pic.twitter.com/eH5qCAa7wT

— Ines Pohl (@inespohl) November 9, 2024

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Donald Trump has announced the formation of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, an organization that will “plan inaugural events”, the Trump-Vance campaign said in a statement on Saturday.

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The co-chairs of the committee have been announced as real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler.

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“On election night, we made history and I have the extraordinary honor of having been elected the 47th President of the United States thanks to tens millions of hardworking Americans across the nation who supported our America First agenda. The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee will honor this magnificent victory in a celebration of the American people and our nation,” Trump said in a statement.

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“This will be the kick-off to my administration, which will deliver on bold promises to Make America Great Again. Together, we will celebrate this moment, steeped on history and tradition, and then get to work to achieve the most incredible future for our people, restoring strength, success, and common sense to the Oval Office,” he added.

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Thousands of New Yorkers have gathered for the Protect Our Futures march, protesting Donald Trump’s re-election as president. Labor unions, immigrant rights groups and LGBTQ+ advocates held aloft a banner reading “We Won’t Back Down” as they marched outside the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Columbus Circle this afternoon.

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Here’s some footage from the ground:

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#BREAKING: Thousands of NYers gather at Columbus Circle for the #ProtectOurFutures march!

We're clear-eyed about the danger posed by a second Trump administration & we're ready to stand shoulder-to-shoulder to fight back against his dangerous policies.

¡Sí se puede! pic.twitter.com/ysh9oIzSKO

— Make the Road NY 🦋 (@MaketheRoadNY) November 9, 2024

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I’m out in the streets to #ProtectOurFutures against the fascist president-Elect Trump before he is even re-seated, alongside thousands of NYers. pic.twitter.com/OlpFUM1Mo0

— Jawanza James Williams | He, Him| 🌹 (@Jawanza) November 9, 2024

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New Yorkers shut down 5th Ave after devastating election results.

It is now up to us—immigrants, working class people, women, the TGNCIQ+ community, and allies—to #ProtectOurFutures. pic.twitter.com/lrBzIUVDYU

— Make the Road NY 🦋 (@MaketheRoadNY) November 9, 2024

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Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11am ET, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. The meeting will be the first between the current and former president after the 2024 election.

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Here’s more on the presidential transition as it gets under way:

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Here is a summary of the latest developments so far on today’s US politics blog:

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  Donald Trump won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election early on Saturday, beating Kamala Harris in Nevada. The AP declared Trump the winner after concluding there were not enough uncounted ballots in the state’s strongest Democratic areas to overcome the former president’s 46,000-vote lead over the Democratic nominee. Only Arizona remains to be called.

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  Nevada Democratic senator Jacky Rosen has won re-election, beating Republican Sam Brown in a tight but unusually quiet race for the battleground state. “Thank you, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to continue serving as your United States senator,” Rosen said on Friday on the social platform X.

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  Joe Biden’s slowness in exiting the 2024 presidential election cost the Democrats dearly, the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said, days after Harris was beaten by Trump. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” Pelosi remarked in The Interview, a New York Times podcast.

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  Officials at the Pentagon are having informal discussions about what to do if Trump were to give an illegal order, such as deploying the military domestically, according to a report from CNN. They are also preparing for the possibility that he may change rules to be able to fire scores of career civil servants.

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  The US justice department is bringing criminal charges over an Iranian plot to kill Trump that was thwarted by the FBI, the government said. The federal government has unsealed criminal charges in what the justice department said was a murder-for-hire plan to take out Trump before this week’s presidential election.

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  Russia is open to hearing Trump’s proposals on ending the war, an official said on Saturday, as a Russian drone killed one person and injured 13 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and the EU foreign policy chief held talks in Kyiv. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said Moscow and Washington were “exchanging signals” on Ukraine via “closed channels”, according to AP. He did not specify whether the communication was with the current administration or Trump and members of his incoming administration.

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  Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist and senior adviser to Trump suggested, in an interview with the BBC, that the Trump administration will focus on securing an end to the war in Ukraine – rather than trying to help Kyiv regain territory.

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  Federal transition officials have said they expect Trump’s team to sign an agreement to accept their help with preparations for the new administration, reports Politico, citing three people with knowledge of the discussions. However, it’s unclear if an agreement has been signed yet, says Politico.

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  Iran on Saturday urged Trump to reconsider the “maximum pressure” policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term. “Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past,” the Iranian vice-president for strategic affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told reporters on Saturday.

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  Just hours after Trump’s election win on Tuesday, Black people across the US reported receiving racist text messages telling them that they had been “selected” to pick cotton and needed to report to “the nearest plantation”. While the texts, some of which were signed “a Trump supporter”, varied in detail, they all conveyed the same essential message about being selected to pick cotton. Some of the messages refer to the recipients by name.

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  Harris received at least 22,000 fewer votes than Biden did four years ago in Michigan’s most heavily Arab American and Muslim cities, a Guardian analysis of raw vote data in the critical swing state finds. The numbers also show Trump made small gains – about 9,000 votes – across those areas, suggesting Harris’s loss there is more attributable to Arab Americans either not voting or casting ballots for third-party candidates.

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  Barack Obama’s former speechwriter said during an episode of the Pod Save America podcast that Biden’s internal polling showed Trump winning “400 electoral votes”, reports the Hill. Jon Favreau, a host of the podcast, said on Friday’s episode, that Biden’s re-election attempt was a “catastrophic mistake”.

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  Inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race. But democracy was also prominent in the minds of voters. Early exit polls on Tuesday night showed democracy as one of the most important issues on voters’ minds after the economy – and both Republican and Democratic voters had concerns. In its VoteCast survey, half of the 120,000 voters polled by the AP said democracy was their single most important motivating factor for how they voted.

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  Anti-abortion advocates say there is still work to be done to further restrict access to abortion when Trump returns to the White House next year. “Now the work begins to dismantle the pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” the Susan B Anthony List, the powerful anti-abortion lobby, said in a statement on Wednesday. The group added: “President Trump’s first-term pro-life accomplishments are the baseline for his second term.” The group declined to release details about what, specifically, they will seek to undo.

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  The Iraqi prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, expressed hopes during a phone call with Trump that he would keep his “promises to work towards ending wars” in the Middle East. In the phone call, the Iraqi premier pointed to Trump’s “campaign statements and promises to work towards ending wars in the region”, a statement from Sudani’s office said late on Friday.

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  Millions of Americans are at risk of losing health coverage in 2025 under Trump’s forthcoming administration. More than 20 million Americans rely on the individual private health insurance market for healthcare, private insurance which is subsidized by the federal government.

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  The judge overseeing Trump’s 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines on Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the Republican’s presidential victory, reports the Associated Press.

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  Bomb threats were made against several Maryland boards of elections and election offices in at least two California counties on Friday, state authorities said, adding that everyone was safe and law enforcement officials were investigating.

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  Nigel Farage has said he could be “useful as an interlocutor” between the UK’s Labour government and Trump. The Reform UK leader said he has “got a great relationship” with the president-elect and also knows people he believes will be in Trump’s administration for “quite a long time”. Speaking to the PA news agency at a Reform event in Exeter, Farage described Trump as a “pro-British American president” who gives the UK “potentially huge opportunities if we can overcome the difficulties that the whole of the cabinet have been rude about him”.

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  Ed Davey has urged UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, to “Trump-proof” the UK by urgently seeking closer European cooperation over military aid for Ukraine and economic ties, after the US president-elect’s threats about security and trade wars. The Liberal Democrat leader, whose party is the third biggest in the House of Commons, argued that while the UK government should seek to work with a Trump administration, it should also be as prepared as possible if he were to abandon Ukraine or impose sweeping tariffs.

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Russia is open to hearing Donald Trump’s proposals on ending the war, an official said on Saturday, as a Russian drone killed one person and wounded 13 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and the European Union foreign policy chief held talks in Kyiv.

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Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said Moscow and Washington were “exchanging signals” on Ukraine via “closed channels”, according to the AP. He did not specify whether the communication was with the current administration or Trump and members of his incoming administration.

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Russia’s readiness depends on whether Trump’s proposals are “ideas on how to move forward in the area of settlement, and not in the area of further pumping the Kyiv regime with all kinds of aid”, Ryabkov said on Saturday in an interview with Russian state news agency Interfax.

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In Kyiv, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, told reporters that Ukraine is ready to work with the Trump administration.

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“Remember that President Zelenskyy was one of the first world leaders … to greet president Trump,” he said. “It was a sincere conversation [and] an exchange of thoughts regarding further cooperation.”

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The BBC has published an interview with Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist and senior adviser to Donald Trump.

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In it, Lanza suggests the Trump administration will focus on securing an end to the war in Ukraine – rather than trying to help Kyiv regain territory.

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Lanza said Zelenskyy would be asked to provide a “realistic vision for peace”, adding:

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And if president Zelenskyy comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious.

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Later, he said:

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When Zelenskyy says we will only stop this fighting, there will only be peace once Crimea is returned, we’ve got news for president Zelenskyy: Crimea is gone.

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And if that is your priority of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you’re on your own.

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Donald Trump won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election early on Saturday, beating Kamala Harris in Nevada.

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The AP declared Trump the winner after concluding there were not enough uncounted ballots in the state’s strongest Democratic areas to overcome the former president’s 46,000-vote lead over the Democratic nominee.

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Trump clinched a second term early on Wednesday when Wisconsin pushed him past the 270 electoral votes needed to win, so Nevada’s six electoral votes only added to the size of his victory.

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He now has 301 electoral votes and has won six of the seven battleground states. Only Arizona remains to be called.

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The AP only declares a winner once it can determine that a trailing candidate can’t close the gap and overtake the vote leader.

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Iran on Saturday urged US president-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the “maximum pressure” policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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“Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past,” Iranian vice-president for strategic affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told reporters on Saturday.

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Zarif, a veteran diplomat who previously served as Iran’s foreign minister, helped seal the 2015 nuclear accord between Tehran and western powers, including the US. The deal however was torpedoed in 2018 after the US unilaterally withdrew from it under Trump, who later reimposed sanctions on Tehran.

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In response, Iran rolled back its obligations under the deal and has since enriched uranium up to 60%, just 30% lower than nuclear-grade. Tehran has repeatedly denied western countries’ accusations that it is seeking to develop a nuclear weapon.

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AFP reports that Zarif also said on Saturday that Trump’s political approach towards Iran led to the increase in enrichment levels. “He must have realised that the maximum pressure policy that he initiated caused Iran’s enrichment to reach 60% from 3.5%,” he said. “As a man of calculation, he should do the math and see what the advantages and disadvantages of this policy have been and whether he wants to continue or change this harmful policy,” Zarif added.

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Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, on Thursday said he hoped the president-elect’s return to the White House would allow Washington to “revise the wrong approaches of the past” – however stopping short of mentioning Trump’s name.

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On Tuesday, Trump told reporters he was “not looking to do damage to Iran”. “My terms are very easy. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. I’d like them to be a very successful country,” he said after he cast his ballot.

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The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines on Friday while prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the Republican’s presidential victory, reports the Associated Press (AP).

n Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump last year with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. But Smith’s team has been evaluating how to wind down the two federal cases before the president-elect takes office because of longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted, a person familiar with the matter told the AP.

n Trump’s victory over vice-president Kamala Harris means that the Justice Department believes he can no longer face prosecution in accordance with department legal opinions meant to shield presidents from criminal charges while in office.

n Trump has criticized both cases as politically motivated, and has said he would fire Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.

n The AP reports that in a court filing on Friday in the 2020 election case, Smith’s team asked to cancel any upcoming court deadlines, saying it needs “time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.”

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Anti-abortion advocates say there is still work to be done to further restrict access to abortion when Republican Donald Trump returns to the White House next year, reports Associated Press (AP).

n They point to the federal guidance that the administration of Democratic president Joe Biden released around emergency abortions, requiring that hospitals provide them for women whose health or life is at risk, and its easing of prescribing restrictions for abortion pills that have allowed women to order the medication online with the click of a button.

n “Now the work begins to dismantle the pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” the Susan B Anthony List, the powerful anti-abortion lobby, said in a statement on Wednesday. The group added: “President Trump’s first-term pro-life accomplishments are the baseline for his second term.”

n The group declined to release details about what, specifically, they will seek to undo, reports the AP. But abortion rights advocates are bracing for further abortion restrictions once Trump takes office. And some women are, too, with online abortion pill orders spiking in the days after election day.

n Trump has said abortion is an issue for the states, not the federal government. Yet, during the campaign, he pointedly noted that he appointed justices to the supreme court who were in the majority when striking down the national right to abortion. There are also things his administration can do, from picking judges to issuing regulations, to further an anti-abortion agenda.

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Nevada Democratic senator Jacky Rosen has won reelection, beating Republican Sam Brown in a tight but unusually quiet race for the battleground state, reports the Associated Press (AP).

n According to the AP, the first-term senator had campaigned on abortion rights and positioned herself as a nonideological politician, a formula that also worked for the state’s senior senator, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, in her own reelection bid two years ago.

n “Thank you, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to continue serving as your United States senator,” Rosen said Friday on the social platform X.

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Thank you, Nevada! I’m honored and grateful to continue serving as your United States Senator. pic.twitter.com/ScvY9Ah9rc

— Jacky Rosen (@RosenforNevada) November 9, 2024

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Brown, a retired army captain who moved to Nevada from Texas in 2018 and has never held elected office, unsuccessfully tried to ride president-elect Donald Trump’s strong showing in the working-class state. Trump won Nevada on Friday.

n The Associated Press left phone and emailed messages seeking comment on Friday from Brown’s campaign. Just before Rosen won, Brown said on X that it was unacceptable that votes were still being counted in Nevada days after the election.

n “We deserve to know election results within hours, not a week later,” he said.

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Millions of Americans are at risk of losing health coverage in 2025 under Donald Trump’s forthcoming administration.

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More than 20 million Americans rely on the individual private health insurance market for healthcare, private insurance which is subsidized by the federal government.

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These subsidies, programs that help lower the cost of health insurance premiums, increased the amount of assistance available to people who want to buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare as a signature piece of legislation during Barack Obama’s administration.

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This specific subsidy program resulted from the Biden administration’s 2021 American Rescue Plan and is set to expire at the end of 2025.

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“The consequences of more people going uninsured are really significant, not just at an individual level with more medical debt and less healthy outcomes, but also has ripple effects for providers,” Sabrina Corlette, a research professor and co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University, said.

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“Premiums go up for the people who do have health insurance; for the people without health insurance, it’s financially devastating. The result is medical debt, garnished wages and liens on people’s homes because they can’t pay off their bills,” she said.

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Just hours after Donald Trump’s election win on Tuesday, Black people across the US reported receiving racist text messages telling them that they had been “selected” to pick cotton and needed to report to “the nearest plantation”. While the texts, some of which were signed “a Trump supporter”, varied in detail, they all conveyed the same essential message about being selected to pick cotton. Some of the messages refer to the recipients by name.

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A spokesperson for the president-elect told CNN that his “campaign has absolutely nothing to do with these text messages”. It is not yet clear who is behind the messages, nor is there a comprehensive list of the people to whom the messages were sent, but social media posts indicate that the messages are widespread.

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Black people in states including Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, the DC area and elsewhere reported receiving the messages. The messages were sent to Black adults and students, including to high schoolers in Massachusetts and New York, and students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), such as Alabama State University and other schools, including ones across Ohio, Clemson University, the University of Alabama and Missouri State. At least six middle school students in Pennsylvania received the messages, according to the AP.

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Authorities including the FBI and attorneys general are investigating the messages.

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Joe Biden’s slowness in exiting the 2024 presidential election cost the Democrats dearly, the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said, days after Kamala Harris was beaten by Donald Trump.

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“We live with what happened,” Pelosi said.

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Pelosi was speaking to The Interview, a New York Times podcast, in a conversation the newspaper said would be published Saturday in full.

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“Had the president gotten out sooner,” Pelosi remarked, “there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.

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“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

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As Democrats engaged in bitter blame games over Harris’s defeat and a second presidency for Trump, who senior Democrats from Harris down freely called a “fascist”, Pelosi’s words landed like an explosive shell.

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The Times said Pelosi “went to great lengths to defend the Biden administration’s legislative accomplishments, most of which took place during his first two years, when she was the House speaker”.

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Pelosi reportedly played a key role in persuading Biden to stand aside. But she has not sought to soothe his feelings. In August, she told the New Yorker she had “never been that impressed with his political operation”.

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Hello and welcome back to our rolling coverage of US politics and the fallout from the presidential election.

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Our top story this morning is that Nancy Pelosi has blamed Joe Biden for the Democrats’ defeat.

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The former House speaker said the president’s slowness in dropping out of the race left the party without enough time to hold an open primary.

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More on that shortly. First, though, here is a round up of the latest news:

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  The justice department has brought charges against a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards paramilitary group for plotting to assassinate Donald Trump prior to Tuesday’s presidential election, the Associated Press reports. On the campaign trail in the lead-up to his election win, Trump survived two assassination attempts, but authorities do not believe either were linked to Iran, a longtime foe of the United States.

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  Donald Trump’s incoming presidency is set to threaten millions of Americans’ healthcare plans. More than 20 million Americans rely on the individual private health insurance market for healthcare, private insurance which is subsidized by the federal government.

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  Robert F Kennedy Jr, the former independent presidential candidate turned Trump surrogate, is reviewing candidate resumes for the top jobs at the US government’s health agencies in Donald Trump’s new administration, a former Kennedy aide and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

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  A Chinese national who had been recently released from a mental hospital was ordered to be held on trespassing charges on Friday after police say he tried to enter president-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the Associated Press reports. That entrance was in violation of a court order that he stay away from Mar-a-Lago after previous attempts.

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  Democratic US Representative Andrea Salinas has won reelection in Oregon’s 6th congressional District, beating Republican Mike Erickson to earn a second term in Congress after outraising him by millions of dollars. Oregon’s newest congressional district was seen as leaning more toward Democrats, according to the Cook Political Report. That gave a slight advantage to the freshman Democratic incumbent, who also defeated Erickson in the 2022 election.

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  Women have won 60 seats in the New Mexico Legislature to secure the largest female legislative majority in US history, stirring expressions of vindication and joy among candidates.

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  A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent US supreme court rulings that strictly interpret the second amendment right to keep and bear firearms. Judge Stephen P McGlynn issued the lengthy finding in a decree that he said applied universally, not just to the plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit challenging the ban.

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  Just hours after Donald Trump’s election win on Tuesday, Black people across the US reported receiving racist text messages telling them that they had been “selected” to pick cotton and needed to report to “the nearest plantation”. While the texts, some of which were signed “a Trump supporter”, varied in detail, they all conveyed the same essential message about being selected to pick cotton. Some of the messages refer to the recipients by name.

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  Donald Trump, during a call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, handed the phone to Elon Musk, the New York Times reported, confirming an earlier Axios story. It is not clear what the three men discussed or whether they touched on any change in US policy toward Ukraine in the wake of Trump’s election victory, the Times said.

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  The Biden administration has decided to allow US defense contractors to work in Ukraine to maintain and repair Pentagon-provided weaponry, Reuters is reporting, citing US officials. The contractors would be small in number and located far from the frontlines and will not be engaged in combat, an official told the news agency.

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  The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case has granted a request from the special counsel’s office to pause proceedings in his trial on charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election. Jack Smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to pause the case against the president-elect to “assess the unprecedented circumstances” in which the office finds itself.

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• Republicans on Saturday appeared close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for Donald Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January. With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Friday night that Republican Jeff Hurd had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado’s third congressional district.

• Voter rights groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona supreme court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Campaign Legal Center asked the state’s high court in an emergency petition that the original 5pm Sunday deadline be extended up to four days after a voter is sent notice of a problem.

• Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won reelection to Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, the Associated Press reports. Her victory gives the Democrats 201 House seats to Republicans’ 212 as the final votes are tallied to determine which party will control the House with 218 votes. Gluesenkamp Perez was first elected to the Senate two years ago when she won a close race for a seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat in more than a decade.

• Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11am ET. The meeting will be the first between the current and former president after the 2024 election.

• Trump announced the formation of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, which will be chaired by real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler. As the president-elect begins to select his cabinet, he shared on Truth Social today that the administration will not include either former UN ambasssador Nikki Haley or former secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

• Thousands of New Yorkers gathered for the Protect Our Futures march, protesting Trump’s re-election as president from outside Trump Tower, as more demonstrators gathered outside the offices of the Heritage Foundation (which authored the controversial Project 2025) in Washington DC.

• A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after she instructed her team to avoid dispatching aid to houses with Trump signs following Hurricane Milton.

• More than two months after the deadline to sign presidential transition paperwork passed, Trump’s incoming administration still has not signed the agreement with the General Services Administration. The agreements coordinating the transition, which were due 1 September, mandate that the incoming president agree to an ethics plan and limit and disclose private donations.

• A record 13 women will lead their states as governor next year, breaking the previously held record of 12 set after the 2022 election.

Maya Yang

Protests against Donald Trump erupted in the US on Saturday as people on both coasts took to the streets in frustration about his re-election.

Thousands of people in major cities including New York City and Seattle demonstrated against the former president and now president-elect amid his threats against reproductive rights and pledges to carry out mass deportations at the start of his upcoming presidency.

In New York City on Saturday, demonstrators from advocacy groups focused on workers’ rights and immigrant justice crowded outside Trump International Hotel and Tower on 5th Avenue holding signs that read: “We protect us” and “Mr President, how long must women wait for liberty?” Others held signs that read: “We won’t back down” while chanting: “Here we are and we’re not leaving!”

Similar protests took place in Washington DC, where Women’s March participants demonstrated outside the Heritage Foundation, the rightwing thinktank behind Project 2025. Pictures posted on social media on Saturday showed demonstrators holding signs that read: “Well-behaved women don’t make history” and “You are never alone”. Demonstrators also chanted: “We believe that we will win!” and held other signs that read: “Where’s my liberty when I have no choice?”

Republicans on Saturday appeared close to clinching control of the US House of Representatives, a critical element for Donald Trump to advance his agenda when the president-elect returns to the White House in January.

With votes still being counted from the 5 November general election, Republicans had won 212 seats in the 435-member House, according to Edison Research, which projected on Friday night that Republican Jeff Hurd had enough votes to keep Republican control of Colorado’s third congressional district.

Democratic Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won re-election to a US House seat representing Washington state on Saturday, the Associated Press reported, defeating Republican Joe Kent in a rematch of one of the closest races of 2022.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece, Meena Harris, shared two photos on social media Saturday of her daughters – Harris’ grandnieces – playing Connect Four, following the vice president’s loss in the 2024 presidential election earlier this week.

She captioned the post, “Back to where it all began only a few months ago. My eternal gratitude to everyone who showed up. We love her so much.”

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ACLU asks Arizona Supreme Court to extend ‘curing’ deadline after vote-count delays

Voter rights groups on Saturday petitioned the Arizona supreme court to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with their mail-in ballots following delays in vote counting and notifying voters about problems, the Associated Press reports.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Campaign Legal Center asked the state’s high court in an emergency petition that the original 5 p.m. Sunday deadline be extended up to four days after a voter is sent notice of a problem.

The groups argued in the petition that “tens of thousands of Arizonans stand to be disenfranchised without any notice, let alone an opportunity to take action to ensure their ballots are counted.”

“Because these ballots have not even been processed, Respondents have not identified which ballots are defective and have not notified voters of the need to cure those defects,” the petition stated.

Arizona law says people who vote by mail should receive notice of problems with their ballots, such as a signature that doesn’t match the one on file, and get a chance to correct it in a process known as “curing.”

The groups’ petition noted that as of Friday evening more than 250,000 mail-in ballots had not yet been verified by signature. The bulk of them were in Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa County.

Just under 200,000 early ballots remained to be processed as of Saturday, according to estimates on the Arizona secretary of state’s Office website.

Election officials in Maricopa did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

Gluesenkamp Perez has balanced progressive policies with some measures popular with Republicans during her tenure, including securing the US-Mexico border – something she criticises Biden for failing to do – and introducing a constitutional amendment to force presidents to balance the budget.

She supports abortion access and has hammered Kent, who previously has said he supported a national abortion ban, for changing his position after the supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade. Kent now says abortion laws should be left up to the states.

Gluesenkamp Perez supports policies to counter climate change, but also speaks openly about being a gun owner. A top priority is pushing a “right to repair” bill that would help people get equipment fixed without having to pay exorbitant prices to the original manufacturer.

Kent, a former Green Beret who has called for the impeachment of President Joe Biden, cited inflation and illegal immigration as top concerns.

The two disagreed on a major local issue: the replacement of a major bridge across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Gluesenkamp Perez supports plans to replace the existing bridge; Kent argued that a separate new bridge should be built while the old one is maintained.

Here is more non Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who has just won re-election to Washington State’s third Congressional District. Via the Associated Press:

Two years ago, Gluesenkamp Perez, who owns an auto-repair shop with her husband, came out of nowhere to win the seat, which hadn’t been in Democratic hands for over a decade. She beat the Trump-endorsed Kent by fewer than 3,000 votes out of nearly 320,000 cast, making it one of the closest races in the country and setting the stage for a tough election fight this year.

Her predecessor, Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, held office for six terms but failed to survive the 2022 primary after voting to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. The district narrowly went for Trump in 2020, making it a crucial target for both parties this year.

The race gained additional attention last week when an arson attack struck a ballot box in Vancouver – the district’s biggest city – scorching hundreds of ballots. People who cast their votes in that box were urged to contact the county auditor’s office to receive replacement ballots.

Today so far

Thanks for joining us today. Here is a summary of the latest developments on today’s US politics blog:

• Joe Biden has invited Donald Trump to the Oval Office on Wednesday at 11am ET. The meeting will be the first between the current and former president after the 2024 election.

• Trump announced the formation of the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, which will be chaired by real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler. As the president-elect begins to select his cabinet, he shared on Truth Social today that the administration will not include either former UN ambassador Nikki Haley or former secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

• Thousands of New Yorkers gathered for the Protect Our Futures march, protesting Trump’s re-election as president from outside Trump Tower, as more demonstrators gathered outside the offices of the Heritage Foundation (which authored the controversial Project 2025) in Washington DC.

• A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee was fired after she instructed her team to avoid dispatching aid to houses with Trump signs following Hurricane Milton.

• More than two months after the deadline to sign presidential transition paperwork passed, Trump’s incoming administration still has not signed the agreement with the General Services Administration. The agreements coordinating the transition, which were due 1 September, mandate that the incoming president agree to an ethics plan and limit and disclose private donations.

• A record 13 women will lead their states as governor next year, breaking the previously held record of 12 set after the 2022 election.

Democratic senator re-elected to Washington state House seat

Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won reelection to Washington state’s 3rd Congressional District, the Associated Press reports. Her victory gives the Democrats 201 House seats to Republicans’ 212 as the final votes are tallied to determine which party will control the House with 218 votes.

Gluesenkamp Perez was first elected to the Senate two years ago when she won a close race for a seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat in more than a decade.

Now that he has been re-elected, Donald Trump has a number of cabinet positions to fill – but his administration won’t include either former UN ambassador Nikki Haley or former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, Trump said on Truth Social.

From President Donald J. Trump: pic.twitter.com/qo25FoZ33j

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 9, 2024

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As Real Clear Politics reports, it’s looking increasingly likely Trump may nominate Richard Grenell as his secretary of state. The former US ambassador to Germany and previous acting director of national intelligence is seen as a Trump loyalist, although Tennessee senator Bill Hagerty and Florida senator Marco Rubio are also reportedly under consideration.

If you’re curious what Donald Trump’s decisive victory says about the current faultlines in American politics, the Guardian’s Richard Luscombe has reported on Trump’s victory among Latino and Hispanic voters.

Here’s more:

The raucous early morning celebration in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood was of a magnitude not seen since the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died eight years previously. In the immigrant-saturated suburb of Westchester, too, Latinos partied beyond daybreak as Donald Trump’s return to the White House was confirmed.

Wednesday morning’s revelry in south Florida reflected a stunning victory for Trump in the previously solid blue, Hispanic-majority county of Miami-Dade that had not been won by a Republican presidential candidate in more than 30 years.

His victory, fueled largely by support from Latino and Hispanic voters, particularly Latino men, was repeated in county after county in swing states as the Democrats’ blue wall crumbled and it became clear Trump would once again be president.

In Pennsylvania, hordes of Puerto Ricans who saw their homeland demeaned as a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally barely a week before, flocked to give him their vote.

As it appears increasingly likely that Republicans will control the presidency, the Senate and the House, Democratic governors across the United States are drawing up plans to “Trump-proof” their states.

California governor Gavin Newsom has drawn perhaps the most attention after tweeting a reaction to Donald Trump’s election-night victory. Newsom has already called for the state legislature to hold a special session before Trump’s inauguration.

.@KamalaHarris set out to fight to defend our fundamental freedoms and build a country that works for everyone. She stood up for working families, decency, and opportunity.

Though this is not the outcome we wanted, our fight for freedom and opportunity endures. 

California…

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 6, 2024

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.@KamalaHarris set out to fight to defend our fundamental freedoms and build a country that works for everyone. She stood up for working families, decency, and opportunity.

Though this is not the outcome we wanted, our fight for freedom and opportunity endures. 

California…

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 6, 2024

But Newsom is not the only Democratic governor preparing for Trump’s second administration. Illinois governor JB Pritzker has spent the days since the election combing through Project 2025, and tells the Chicago Sun Times: “You come for my people, you come through me.”

Meanwhile, Massachusetts governor Maura Healey told MSNBC that her state’s law enforcement will not assist in mass deportations if Trump orders them.

More protesters are gathering in cities across the US to denounce Donald Trump’s re-election. Although widespread, the protests are decidedly smaller than many that occured following the president-elect’s first victory in 2016.

Here’s a sense of where demonstrations are taking place:

Seattle

Seattle — Thousands of people are outside the Space Needle protesting Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

Antifa dressed in riot gear have arrived on scene. @SeattlePD is watching.pic.twitter.com/1bY9xCQot2

— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) November 9, 2024

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Seattle — Thousands of people are outside the Space Needle protesting Donald Trump winning the presidential election.

Antifa dressed in riot gear have arrived on scene. @SeattlePD is watching.pic.twitter.com/1bY9xCQot2

— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) November 9, 2024

Portland

Rally held outside Portland City Hall to protest Trump reelection, call for solutions https://t.co/ExQCdQpJdM

— KGW News (@KGWNews) November 9, 2024

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Denver

Don’t miss the protest this weekend! Share it and bring a friend!

We need to move all those who can be moved into struggle against the attacks on the people bound to come from a Trump administration!

Build the movement against Trump! Make the U.S. ungovernable! pic.twitter.com/DZiYmcwOT0

— Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Denver (@DenverFRSO) November 7, 2024

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Don’t miss the protest this weekend! Share it and bring a friend!

We need to move all those who can be moved into struggle against the attacks on the people bound to come from a Trump administration!

Build the movement against Trump! Make the U.S. ungovernable! pic.twitter.com/DZiYmcwOT0

— Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Denver (@DenverFRSO) November 7, 2024