President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are pushing back against critics urging the president to step aside from the 2024 presidential race by launching a vigorous campaign to link former President Trump to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 platform.
This effort follows Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025, a controversial initiative seen as a roadmap for a future Republican administration to overhaul numerous aspects of the U.S. government. Trump has called parts of the plan “ridiculous” and “abysmal.”
“Donald Trump’s Project 2025 team is stacked with the same extremists who helped him rip away women’s freedoms, round up and deport Latinos, and undermine our democracy in his first term,” Biden campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika told Fox News Digital.
“If Trump wins this election, his Project 2025 allies will work around the clock to make sure he can go even further to ban abortion nationwide, gut Social Security and Medicare, and rule as a ‘dictator on day one.’ Donald Trump and Project 2025 are one and the same — and voters are going to make sure they both lose this November.”
While Project 2025 is not officially part of Trump’s campaign, Chitika’s reference to “Trump’s Project 2025 team” highlights that many individuals who developed the initiative in 2023 previously served in Trump’s administration, including Paul Dans, who directed the project and was Trump’s White House Liaison to the Office of Personnel Management.