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WASHINGTON One day after protesters denouncing President Donald Trump flooded city streets around the U.S., Democrats faced the prospect of turning the freewheeling day of protest into sustained popular opposition to the new presidents agenda.

Democrats, out of power and in the midst of an internal debate about the partys future direction, said they were cheered by the depths of the opposition to Trump shown by large turnouts for Womens March events in dozens of cities.

The Women's March on Washington on Saturday extended across the U.S. and around the world. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to rebuke President Trump on his first full day in office. Photo: Getty Images

But party veterans said the key to any Democratic reversal of fortunes will be capitalizing on opposition to Trump, who enters office as the least popular president in the history of modern polling. That effort will take sustained organizing and outreach to people who havent necessarily been previously engaged in politics, strategists said.

Youve got a whole bunch of people who are leaving D.C. and elsewhere with a great, positive buzz and no real direction, said David Axelrod, who was former President Barack Obamas top political strategist and attended the Washington D.C. march. The challenge for Democrats is, without a president and without a lot of structure, how do you channel that energy into electoral politics? Axelrod said.

He said one metric to watch will be engagement and participation in the 2018 midterm elections, where the party in power traditionally loses seats.

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