​'Warning sign': New protest against Trump predicted to 'come back to haunt Republicans'

Millions of Americans took to the streets Saturday to protest against President Donald Trump, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" agreed that widespread antipathy should be a warning to Republicans.

This weekend's No Kings rallies drew a reported 8 million people, and Bloomberg's Mario Parker said each round of demonstrations has grown as voters reject the president's policies.

"This takes place against this backdrop of just so much frustration and angst, right?" Parker said. "This is something that's different from what we saw a year ago when we were seeing some of these protests. Now it's the TSA lines, right, the long lines, the gasoline prices that Americans are worried about the war in Iran and other places, that Americans are kind of having anxiety about, as well, and then just the consternation right now with the current state of affairs, affordability and the political climate, as well. So you put all of that together in a gumbo, and then you get just this huge outpouring. It does the president no favors at this point to weigh in or give it any more oxygen, just given just how far this blaze is."

"What I do think that is a warning sign for Republicans in the House and the Senate, who see these things and have to be shuddering right now because Democrats, if they play their cards right, can kind of use some of this and maximize it," Parker added.

Demonstrators carried signs that reflected a broad range of concerns, but CNN's Sara Fischer said that should be of great concern to Republicans.

"I think that broadly speaking, it is sort of unified, and that it's a check on authoritarian power," Fischer said. "That's what the No Kings labeling suggests. I think in terms of November, there's two things I'm watching: One ... in red states, there's momentum is building against with this movement, and then the second is if you take a look at the intra dynamics in the Republican Party, the Iran war is really playing out to sort of bifurcate it and split it. Both of those things combined going into November is going to make it very difficult for Republicans, because independents are looking at this and they're saying that this has gone too far, and so I don't think that this No Kings protest, despite the fact that there's 8 million people across various cities, is that disjointed?"

"I think it's broadly a check on presidential power," she added, "and that's going to come back to haunt the Republicans in November."

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