{"id":1037934,"date":"2024-08-01T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037934"},"modified":"2024-08-01T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T22:00:08","slug":"icymi-project-2025-leader-trumps-agenda-is-very-connected-to-the-aims-of-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-project-2025-leader-trumps-agenda-is-very-connected-to-the-aims-of-project-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Project 2025 Leader: Trump\u2019s Agenda is \u201cVery Connected to the Aims of Project 2025\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cShortly after former President Donald Trump picked Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, Project 2025 leader and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts called Vance \u2018a great friend of mine and Heritage\u2019 and suggested a Trump-Vance administration would have a goal \u2018that\u2019s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/kevin-roberts\/project-2025-leader-kevin-roberts-trumps-goal-very-connected-aims-project-2025-jd\"><strong>Media Matters<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Project 2025 leader: Trump\u2019s goal is \u201cvery connected to the aims of Project 2025,\u201d JD Vance is \u201ca great friend of mine and Heritage\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Eric Hananoki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shortly after former President Donald Trump picked Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, Project 2025 leader and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts called Vance \u201ca great friend of mine and Heritage\u201d and suggested a Trump-Vance administration would have a goal \u201cthat\u2019s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Project 2025, which is led by the right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, is an extremist plan to guide staffing and policy priorities for the next Republican administration. The project has become so toxic that Paul Dans, the former Project 2025 director, recently stepped down.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[T]here are numerous documented connections between the Trump campaign and the project. The latest and perhaps one of the strongest connections between Trump and the initiative is Vance himself, who wrote a foreword to Roberts\u2019 book and has lavished both Heritage and Roberts with praise.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Just days after Vance was introduced as Trump\u2019s vice presidential pick, Roberts told radio host Rich Zeoli that he and Vance have \u201cbecome very good friends\u201d and that \u201cas a friend of Senator Vance and as someone who admires his policies, I couldn\u2019t be happier.\u201d<\/strong> He also said: \u201cHis being on the ticket isn\u2019t even so much about policy, as it is President Trump saying, that\u2019s the future of the country, what we\u2019re gonna do as a Trump-Vance administration is give American people hope again. <strong>Actually, that\u2019s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.\u201d <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During a July 19, appearance on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Roberts also said of Vance: \u201cThe left is apoplectic because Trump remains popular, <strong>his vice presidential pick is terrific, a great friend of mine and Heritage.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cShortly after former President Donald Trump picked Sen. JD Vance as his running mate, Project 2025 leader and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts called Vance \u2018a great friend of mine and Heritage\u2019 and suggested a Trump-Vance administration would have a goal \u2018that\u2019s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.\u2019\u201d Media Matters: Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Project 2025 Leader: Trump\u2019s Agenda is \u201cVery Connected to the Aims of Project 2025\u201d - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-project-2025-leader-trumps-agenda-is-very-connected-to-the-aims-of-project-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-01T22:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-01T22:00:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-project-2025-leader-trumps-agenda-is-very-connected-to-the-aims-of-project-2025\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-project-2025-leader-trumps-agenda-is-very-connected-to-the-aims-of-project-2025\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Project 2025 Leader: Trump\u2019s Agenda is \u201cVery Connected to the Aims of Project 2025\u201d - 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