Hi all –

Tonight on the debate stage, Donald Trump is going to try to hide from what voters already know: that his extreme and wildly unpopular Project 2025 agenda is “undeniably a Trump-driven operation” – and if given the chance, he and his Project 2025-backed VP pick JD Vance will enact their horrifying vision starting on Day One.

Here are the facts about Donald Trump’s clear ties to Project 2025:

• At least 140 former Trump administration officials are involved in crafting and pushing the Project 2025 agenda.
• The leader of the group spearheading the Project 2025 agenda has called their role “institutionalizing Trumpism.”
• Trump even took a private flight with the lead architect of Project 2025 and said his organization was “going to lay the groundwork and detail plans” for his “movement.”
• Trump himself has praised Project 2025 as containing “things everybody would like.” 
• After Trump picked Vance as his running mate, the lead author of Project 2025 admitted that “privately” they “were really rooting for [Vance]” to be the pick.
• Vance not only wrote a glowing book foreword praising Project 2025’s top architect, but has claimed there are “good ideas” in their radical agenda and explicitly pushed policies that mirror some of its most extreme provisions.

And it’s no surprise why Trump is going all-out trying to hide his clear-cut connections to Project 2025. This extreme agenda is full of wildly out-of-touch and toxic policy proposals that drive away voters, such as:

• Banning abortion nationwide with or without Congress.
• Threatening access to IVF and contraception.
• Gutting checks and balances to give Trump unprecedented power over our lives while undermining our democracy.
• Tax giveaways to the billionaires and tax hikes on the middle class.
• Ending the Department of Education and ripping away funds from public schools.
• Rolling back student loan debt relief for those who need it most.

Bottom Line: No matter what lies Trump tries to tell on stage tonight, there’s no hiding from the fact that his Project 2025 agenda was written for him by his extreme, close allies – but voters can stop him from ever getting the chance to enact it this November.

Thanks,

Alex Floyd

Rapid Response Director

Democratic National Committee