As Donald Trump campaigns with anti-choice extremists and conspiracy theorists in North Carolina today, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:

“Donald Trump is relying on anti-choice extremists and conspiracy theorists to make his closing pitch to voters while he goes on unhinged rants threatening our freedoms and our democracy. Trump’s surrogates today include far-right MAGA allies who, like Trump, have pushed reckless lies about the response to Hurricane Helene and railed against our reproductive freedoms, even calling abortion ‘the greatest evil in our country.’ Voters are sick of the lies and extremism, and they are ready to reject Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and out-of-touch Project 2025 blueprint at the ballot box in just 15 days.”

TODAY: Donald Trump is campaigning in North Carolina with a MAGA ally who has pushed dangerous hurricane conspiracy theories.

Media Matters: “Clay Clark is ‘a dear friend’ of Eric Trump who said during an October 3 interview: ‘Weather manipulation is real, and the town or the area that was most devastated by the flood happens to be in a town that sits on America’s largest lithium deposits.”’

TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025 AGENDA: Gut the NOAA, restrict FEMA’s ability to deliver aid after disasters, and eliminate disaster loans for families and small businesses to rebuild after storms — after inserting politics into natural disasters as president.

E&E News: “[A] review of Trump’s record by POLITICO’s E&E News and interviews with two former Trump White House officials show that the former president was flagrantly partisan at times in response to disasters and on at least three occasions hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered politically hostile or ordered special treatment for pro-Trump states.”

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 675: “This industry’s mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful functions. It should be broken up and downsized.”

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 675: “Focus the NWS on Commercial Operations. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather.”

Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 664: “The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.”

Center for American Progress: “Relatedly, in its section on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Project 2025 proposes the agency increase the threshold for disaster declarations, thereby making it more difficult for states and localities—and, by extension, the families and businesses that call them home—to qualify for federal aid after disaster strikes.

“Even still, Project 2025—a far-right road map that would gut the country’s nearly 250-year-old system of checks and balances—proposes, on page 750, an ‘end to SBA direct lending,’ the only instance of which is the disaster loan program. Project 2025 suggests privatization as one potential solution and claims, without evidence, that loan availability ‘reduces individuals’ incentives to purchase disaster-related insurance.’”

TODAY: Trump’s event features anti-choice extremists whose records include calling abortion the “greatest evil in our country.”

Jackson Lahmeyer: “I have and will say without apology, ‘Abortion is the greatest evil in our country with no close 2nd.’ I will support Oklahoma’s Constitutional right to nullify Roe v Wade […] I believe abortion needs to come to an end in America.”

Media Matters: “Steve Shultz is the host of ElijahStreams, an online streaming outlet that hosts ‘prophets’ and ‘prophetic guests’ who have pushed extreme rhetoric on the program, including guests who attributed the Maui wildfires to ‘demonic attack’ by a fire-breathing dragon upset over the legality of abortion and who invoked QAnon conspiracy theories.” 

TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025 AGENDA: Ban abortion nationwide, threaten access to IVF and contraception, and rip away reproductive freedoms while making sure anti-choice extremists “always have a seat” at the Trump-Vance ticket’s table.

Rolling Stone: “Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report”

Trump: “There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it’s very important.”

Trump: “There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have an abortion].”

Interviewer: “There are ads running that say that you would support certain states with bans monitoring a woman’s pregnancy.”

Trump: “Well that would be up to the states, again. They will make a decision as to how they do it.”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

New Republic: “On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan—far from it. It’s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one.” 

Politico: “Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They’re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.

“Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed.”

Vance: “On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood […] our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late term abortions. That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view.”

Project 2025, page 471: “Prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds… Policymakers should end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.” 

Media Matters: “The Heritage Foundation quietly released draconian new IVF policy recommendations for the next GOP president”

“Heritage has been a staunchly anti-IVF voice, supporting Alabama’s controversial Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos cultivated through IVF treatment have the same rights as living children, and that a person can be held liable for destroying embryos.”

The Nation: “Project 2025 Has Bad Medicine for HHS”

“And by declaring that life begins at conception, his manifesto appears to commit HHS to finding ways to outlaw IVF, which relies on generating multiple embryos, most of which are not implanted.”

The 19th: “RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF” 

“Fetal personhood is widely seen as being in conflict with in vitro fertilization (IVF), which creates embryos outside of the uterus that are later implanted. Fetal personhood bestows the same rights currently reserved for people to embryos from the moment of fertilization.”

Reproductive Freedom for All: “The extensive mandate calls to gut reproductive freedom, including effectively banning medication abortion, ending access to emergency abortion care, attacking contraception, deploying fetal personhood, and undermining IVF in federal policy…

“Project 2025 includes personhood language and policies that propagate the belief that life begins at conception—which could have devastating impacts should it be put into law. This so-called “personhood” language could ban not only abortion but also some forms of birth control and assisted fertility treatments like IVF.”

Rolling Stone: “Inside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill”

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

Axios: “[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.”