Trump distances himself from Project 2025 to Democrats’ dismay

Published July 23, 2024 4:42pm ET



Former President Donald Trump disavowed Project 2025 at a campaign rally over the weekend in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The denunciation was long overdue, given Democrats’ perpetual attempts to tie Trump to the sometimes controversial document of policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation.

Project 2025 is a 900-page document that outlines theoretical policies for a Republican administration. The former president said at the rally that some of the policies are “seriously extreme” and that those who created them are “very, very conservative.”

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