On Saturday, scores of people converged on a Tesla showroom in Lower Manhattan.

Nobody voting for Elon Musk.

Some demonstrators went inside while others locked arms to block the door.

For a while, the showroom was shut down.

Demonstrations like this broke out around the country this past week.

In Colorado, one Tesla showroom was hit with Molotov cocktails. In Oregon,

another location was riddled with bullets. Seems like people are finding that Tesla stores,

Tesla's superchargers, and Tesla's they see in the street are good locations to protest what's

happening in the federal government.

That's our colleague Becky Peterson, who covers Tesla.

So across the country, we've seen protests at Tesla sales locations.

We've also seen arson at superchargers and people spray printing graffiti on random cars.

This blowback against Tesla is coming as the company's founder, Elon Musk,

has risen in the new Trump administration.

And people aren't just using signs and slogans to show their disapproval.

They're protesting with their wallets.

People see Tesla as a way to directly respond to what's happening in the government.

Musk wasn't elected.

There's not a lot of ways to hit back directly.

So there's sort of a movement to try to get at him financially.

Tesla's sales are declining for the first time. That's at a company that has only seen

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