Why Democrats can’t stop talking about Project 2025
By
Ramsey Touchberry
and
Cami Mondeaux
July 13, 2024 7:00 am
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It’s a phrase Democrats have come to mention nearly every chance they get, from press conferences and speeches to political ads and social media posts: Project 2025.
The conservative playbook from the Heritage Foundation think tank that maps out another potential Trump presidency isn’t directly tied to the former president. Donald Trump has, for his part, denounced “some” of the expansive road map to overhaul functions of the federal government.
But for Democrats, Project 2025 has become their favorite pivot away from their own unpopular president and questions about his mental and physical ability to lead. Under pressure from his party to drop out of the race, President Joe Biden even brought up defending against Project 2025 as a reason to keep him in power.
“Do you think democracy is under siege based on Project 2025?” Biden asked rhetorically this week during his first solo press conference of the year. “Do you think he means what he says when he says he’s going to do away with the civil service, eliminate the Department of Education? … We’ve never been here before.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has a harsher assessment.
“The Trump manifesto is an autocrat’s dream,” he said in remarks on the Senate floor. “The hard Right is done speaking in euphemisms. They’re smelling blood, they’re saying it straight to our faces, ‘If you disagree with Donald Trump, watch your back.’ It’s bone-chilling, it’s un-American, it’s dangerous for our democracy.”
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