Election 2024 live updates: ACLU, others prepping plans to oppose Trump policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Harris won much of the West Coast and Northeast and Trump clinched victories in the South.
71% : Trump won the first swing state called on election night, North Carolina.
69% : Trump has run for president three times, winning the office in 2016 and now in 2024.
66% : A politician rejected by voters in 2020 and abandoned by many in his party after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump is poised to again become the most powerful man in the world.
61% : Trump secured the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next president after he was projected the winner of Wisconsin around 5:40 a.m. ET.- Joey GarrisonSpeaker Johnson: Border, inflation issues helped keep House in GOP handsHouse Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday the narrowly divided House appears set to remain in Republican control, which he credited to widespread support for secure borders and reducing inflation.
57% : "It's so easy - I would fire him within two seconds," Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Oct. 24.What the election results mean for you: Sign up for USA TODAY's On Politics newsletter for updates and exclusive analysis.
51% : "Historic comeback for Trump, a once and future presidentFour years ago, Trump by most measures was a political pariah.
49% : Weeks of polling had showed the candidates competing in a razor-close election, but in the end Trump won over enough pivotal states with his focus on inflation and immigration.
49% : Trump captured more than the required 270 electoral votes, and his tally could increase as more votes are counted.
46% : "We are ready to take action the minute Trump takes the oath of office," Romero said in a statement.
43% : "When President-elect Trump targets immigrants, dissidents and his political opponents we will challenge him in the courts, in state legislatures and in the streets.
42% : "Can Trump run again in 2028?
41% : Foes of Trump, however, promised to provide his administration no honeymoon.
37% : But Trump also picked up North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, pushing him over the threshold of 270 electoral votes to win the race.
30% : Rising from the ashes after a bonfire of scandal fueled by four criminal prosecutions, two impeachments and a failed insurrection, Trump swept aside dire warnings that he could bring American democracy to an end and instead used the democratic system as the ultimate vindication.
30% : Trump has made clear he would derail the efforts of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith in his two federal cases.
24% : Trump has said he could fire Smith or pardon himself.

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