This is the fifth in a series of stories on how President-elect Trump’s second term will affect life in Marin.

Two months from Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Marin County’s legislative representatives are girding for conflict.

The three Democrats — U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman of San Rafael, Assemblymember Damon Connolly of San Rafael and state Sen. Mike McGuire of Sonoma County — said they plan to defend the left’s priorities and accomplishments against assault by the new administration.

“We think we have a pretty good sense for what Trump is going to try to do in the first 100 days, especially with both houses of Congress with narrow Republican majorities,” Huffman said. “My job will be the loyal opposition in trying to defend the good policies that we put in place under the Biden administration, and to oppose extremism and overreaching, which is definitely coming our way.”

Huffman said Trump’s proposal for mass deportations will have a “chilling effect” in his district, which stretches from Marin to the Oregon border.

“It’s going to be very scary for workers, families and others in the community, so we’re going to have to navigate all of that,” he said. “It could have broader effects on the economy.”

Huffman said he will continue his work of trying to get legislation through Congress, even as his party switches from the majority to the minority in the House of Representatives.

“Whether good times or in bad, you hope there is a path for your bills to advance, but even when that’s unlikely, you’ve got to keep putting good ideas forward,” he said.

McGuire, the state Senate’s president pro tempore, vows to help build a “firewall” between California and the incoming administration.

“I firmly believe that Donald Trump is petty, vindictive, and he’s going to come to the jugular of those who do not agree with him and do not bend a knee,” said McGuire, who lives in Sonoma County. “Let me be clear: California will not bend a knee to Donald Trump.”

Soon after Trump’s victory, Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session Dec. 2 to address the state’s response to the incoming Trump administration.

“The freedoms we hold dear in California are under attack, and we won’t sit idle,” Newsom said Nov. 7. “California has faced this challenge before, and we know how to respond. We are prepared, and we will do everything necessary to ensure Californians have the support and resources they need to thrive.”

McGuire said the legislative session will focus on funding for the California Department of Justice to defend the state in court against potential challenges by the Trump administration.

McGuire also said lawmakers will roll out “a legislative package that will help protect California families, the policies we worked so hard for and the progress we made.”

Infrastructure in particular could suffer during the next presidency, said McGuire, whose district, like Huffman’s, extends up the coast to Oregon.

He said the Biden administration invested in projects such as expanding Highway 101, modernizing bridges and improving water systems.

“Donald Trump does not give a damn about any of that,” McGuire said. “All he cares about is advancing his selfish agenda and the minions that are around him.”

Connolly said he is still processing the election results and what they mean for the future.

“I know that a lot of people in our community are feeling concerned and uncertain about what is to come,” he said. “I think those concerns are well-taken.”

Connolly, who represents Marin and southern Sonoma County in the 12th Assembly District, considers the incoming Trump administration to be a new dimension to his ongoing work on wildfire insurance, utility rates and health care expansion. But he said the immediate concern is Trump’s deportation pledge.

“We are actively reaching out to nonprofits and community groups to continue to strategize our responses,” Connolly said. “The last thing we want to see is yet again the threat of family separation. That was a risk during the first Trump administration.”

He said he has also heard concerns from constituents about health care access and environmental protection.

“I think there’s going to be a number of possible impacts, but there will also be proactive actions we can take in a way that would protect our local communities in the North Bay as well,” Connolly said.

In contrast to the lawmakers, Tom Montgomery, vice chair of the Marin County Republican Central Committee, is pleased with the presidential election results. As a California delegate, he voted for Trump’s nomination at the party’s convention.

Montgomery said Trump’s victory “was the perfect ending to it after a hard-fought campaign, which included assassination attempts and everything else, and he won decisively.”

Montgomery accused local Democratic elected officials of grandstanding and fear-mongering about Trump, who, he noted, is not in office yet.

“If these guys are capable of predicting the future that accurately, then I’d like to take them to the horse track with me and call on horse bets,” he said.

As for the Democrats’ losses in the election, Montgomery said they should look in a mirror.

“I look at Trump, he’s not perfect, nobody is,” Montgomery said. “But I’ll take policy over personality any day of the week. And Joe Biden had no policy whatsoever.”

“They could’ve fixed immigration,” Montgomery said of Democratic lawmakers. “They didn’t need Republicans to do it, and they didn’t do it. So they are as much to blame on the immigration issue as they blame us.”

Montgomery said he is hoping for changes to health care, particularly tax incentives for people to become physicians. He said that the Affordable Care Act increased the demand for, but not the supply, of physicians, and that he had an eight-week wait to see his doctor.

“We have a serious supply problem and nobody is doing a damn thing to fix it,” Montgomery said.