'It's alive!' CNN polling analyst says anti-Trump resistance is officially back

CNN's Harry Enten claimed that the "Hands-Off!" demonstrations that took place in all 50 states over the weekend were a sign that the resistance to President Donald Trump and DOGE's Elon Musk was alive and well.

Organizers told NPR that more than 1,300 rallies took place in what the outlet called, "the most widespread" protests of Trump's second term so far.

"Obviously, getting exact numbers is a little bit difficult, but we can look in the search interest online," Enten said Monday. "Weekly Google searches for 'protests,' — look at this — up 1,200 percent versus a year ago. And it's at, or even exceeding, the levels that we saw during the January 2017 protests, which, you remember, were everywhere...I feel like Frankenstein...saying, the monster, 'It's alive! It's alive!'"

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Enten concluded, "If the resistance was a little bit lacking at the beginning of Trump's second term, it is very much alive now."

Anchor Kate Bolduan asked, "What are you looking at, in terms of the polling on this, the polling on resistance to President Trump, maybe now versus before?"

Enten answered, "One of the best ways we can understand the quote, unquote, 'resistance,' is how strongly folks disapprove of the job that Donald Trump is doing as president."

In November 2018, Enten said voters who "strongly disapproved" of Trump sat at 42 percent, and on Monday, that number was at 43 percent.

"The level of strong resistance to Donald Trump now is matching what we saw back in November of 2018, when, of course, Republicans got swept out of power in the House of Representatives," Enten said. "It was a Democratic sweep. They crushed him — gained 40 seats."

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