In response to new polling on Americans learning more about and disliking Donald Trump and JD Vance’s extreme Project 2025 agenda, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:
“The American people are seeing Donald Trump and JD Vance’s extreme Project 2025 agenda exactly for what it is: A deeply unpopular MAGA blueprint to ban abortion nationwide with or without Congress, gut our system of checks and balances, and rig the economy for billionaires at the expense of the middle class. Project 2025 is undeniably a product of Trump and Vance’s ultra-MAGA extremism – and Americans won’t be fooled by their desperate attempts to cover their deep ties to this out-of-touch agenda. Voters are fired up to reject the Trump-Vance ticket’s dangerous Project 2025 agenda this November because they understand our freedoms and our democracy are on the line.”
NEW: Americans are learning more and more about the Trump-Vance ticket’s extreme and unpopular Project 2025 agenda – and rejecting this dangerous and out-of-touch MAGA blueprint.
Navigator Research: “Project 2025 Has Become Significantly More Unfavorable Since Trump Attempted to Distance Himself From the Plan”
“Project 2025 has seen a significant increase in both awareness and unfavorability since our last survey in June. 54 percent of Americans report being familiar with Project 2025… Among those familiar with the Project 2025, just 11 percent view it favorably, while 43 percent view it unfavorably.
“When people are asked what negative news they have heard recently concerning Donald Trump, mentions of Project 2025 have dramatically increased. … A plurality of Americans believe Project 2025 accurately represents what Trump stands for.”
The more the American people learn about Trump’s Project 2025 agenda, the more they dislike it.
Navigator Research: “Americans oppose all the key elements in Project 2025, with the greatest concerns around health care, worker’s rights, and dismantling federal programs. Over four in five Americans oppose an array of policies proposed in Project 2025 such as ‘allowing employers to stop paying hourly workers overtime’ … Additionally, four in five oppose ‘allowing the government to monitor people’s pregnancies to potentially prosecute them if they miscarry.’”
“Americans’ overall opposition to Project 2025 increases after reading about its specific policy goals.”
“Three in five Americans say Project 2025 would benefit the wealthiest Americans, CEOs, and corporations.”
Miami Herald: “As Americans learn more about Project 2025, they become more opposed, poll finds”
FACT: Project 2025 is “undeniably a Trump-driven operation.”
Axios: “This is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”
Politico: “Many of the authors of the blueprint are former Trump officials, and the Heritage Foundation has spent the past year-plus recruiting people to implement the plans within the administration, Scott said.
“‘So they don’t just have a long, sprawling policy document,’ he said, ‘they also have a growing list of staff who are being tested to see if they are loyal to Trump and if they are willing to administer this in his potential administration.’
“While groups like Heritage have put forward conservative policy proposals in the past, Scott said Project 2025 is distinct in that it’s so comprehensive and far-reaching.
“‘It has so many groups contributing to it. It’s the whole conservative policy movement gathered together,’ he said.”
The Week: “Many of Trump’s indicated plans for a second term fall in line with the Project 2025 outline.”
New York Times: “Roberts told me that he views Heritage’s role today as ‘institutionalizing Trumpism.’ This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump’s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that ‘the Trump administration … simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.’”
FACT: JD Vance has deep ties to Project 2025 and has praised the extreme MAGA blueprint as containing “good ideas.”
Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”
The New Republic: “Project 2025 Leader Is Overjoyed by Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick”
Nick Corasaniti, New York Times: “[Heritage president Kevin Roberts] reacted to the news [of Vance’s VP selection] ‘with a broad smile on my face’ and said that ‘privately, we were really rooting for him.’”
Gram Slattery, Reuters: “Vance is very close to Heritage and even wrote the forward for a book from the think tank’s president. Project 2025 is of course organized by Heritage.”
Vox: “Kevin Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the driving force behind Project 2025, told Ward that ‘[Vance] is absolutely going to be one of the leaders — if not the leader — of our movement.’”
Vance: “I want to thank especially Kevin Roberts and all the Heritage Foundation for 50 years of incredible work on conservative policy.”
Vance: “I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, is fire every single civil servant… replace them with our people.”
Politico: “The résumés of Vance’s senior staffers read like a phone book for the New Right ecosystem in Washington: the Claremont Institute, American Compass, the Conservative Partnership Institute, Hillsdale College.”
Politico: Project 2025 author and RNC Platform Committee Policy Director Russ Vought is a “close ally of Vance.”
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