The demonstration was one of many across the country, joining the national 50501 Movement, which promoted 50 protests in 50 states in one day.

Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's early actions, decrying everything from the president's immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

SOUTH BEND — Democrat Valerie McCray lost the election as U.S. senator to Republican Jim Banks last fall. But, as she told a crowd of roughly 200 people in the bone-chilling 31 degrees at downtown’s Jon Hunt Memorial Plaza, that only “left me free to fight back with both hands and feet.”