Key Point: “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 ‘a great friend of mine and Heritage’ and suggested a Trump-Vance administration would have a goal ‘that’s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.’”

Media Matters: Project 2025 leader: Trump’s goal is “very connected to the aims of Project 2025,” JD Vance is “a great friend of mine and Heritage”

By: Eric Hananoki

• 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 “a great friend of mine and Heritage” and suggested a Trump-Vance administration would have a goal “that’s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.”

• 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.
  
• [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’ book and has lavished both Heritage and Roberts with praise.

• Just days after Vance was introduced as Trump’s vice presidential pick, Roberts told radio host Rich Zeoli that he and Vance have “become very good friends” and that “as a friend of Senator Vance and as someone who admires his policies, I couldn’t be happier.” He also said: “His being on the ticket isn’t even so much about policy, as it is President Trump saying, that’s the future of the country, what we’re gonna do as a Trump-Vance administration is give American people hope again. Actually, that’s very connected to the aims of Project 2025.”
  
• During a July 19, appearance on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Roberts also said of Vance: “The left is apoplectic because Trump remains popular, his vice presidential pick is terrific, a great friend of mine and Heritage.”