Election 2024 live updates: Early reaction to Trump's win; has Harris conceded?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : The nominees each claimed their respective strongholds: 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.
68% : "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.
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.
48% : Historic comeback for Trump, a once and future presidentFour years ago, Trump by most measures was a political pariah.
48% : "It's so easy - I would fire him within two seconds," Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Oct. 24- Bart JansenACLU ready to challenge Trump's 'mass deportation' planThe American Civil Liberties Union, which fought many of Donald Trump's controversial policies during his first administration, said Wednesday it already has a battleplan for Trump's next term.
46% : "We are ready to take action the minute Trump takes the oath of office," Romero said in a statement.
44% : "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.
33% : But Trump picked up North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and the Badger State pushed 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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