California Governor Gavin Newsom is vowing to pursue “Trump-proofing” and has said “the freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack — and we won’t sit idle.” Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker proclaimed that “you come for my people,

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Jay Clayton as the lead federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York provided an early answer to a question that's simmering in the city’s political and legal circles: Would Trump put a political firebrand in charge of the famously independent Manhattan office that’s prosecuting Mayor Eric Adams?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked if he was "embracing" the President-elect Trump in order to get a pardon for his federal criminal charges.