Project 2025: Political winner or loser?
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
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It's also been a major talking point for Democrats on the campaign trail. Donald Trump, meanwhile, has tried to disavow it and distance himself.
That's because the plan has attracted negative attention over the ultra conservative policies it endorses like overhauling and eliminating some government agencies, firing thousands of civil servants and a mass deportation campaign.
Project 2025 was created to help the next Republican President execute an extreme conservative agenda. Now it's also become an attack line for Democrats.
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| 0:00.0 | Project 2025, a 922 page blueprint to make Donald Trump the most powerful president ever. |
| 0:08.0 | Project 2025, it is a conservative agenda created by the Heritage Foundation a conservative think tank and it's a roadmap for the next Republican president |
| 0:19.0 | He'll round up American citizens, use the government to punish his enemies, but the crazy and corrupt |
| 0:25.2 | in power forever. |
| 0:27.2 | Overhauling the Department of Justice, giving Trump the unchecked power to seek vengeance. |
| 0:33.0 | Less free, less fair, less American. |
| 0:37.0 | The plan has attracted negative attention over the ultra-conservative policies it endorses policies such as overhauling and eliminating some government |
| 0:46.6 | agencies, firing thousands of civil servants, and authorizing a mass deportation campaign. |
| 0:52.9 | Despite all that being aligned with Trump policy priorities, |
| 0:56.7 | the former president has been trying to distance himself |
| 0:59.8 | from Project 2025 for months. |
| 1:02.4 | I don't know what the hell it is it's Project 25. |
| 1:05.1 | At the same time, Democrats have seized on the sweeping agenda on the campaign trail. |
| 1:10.6 | Because we know Donald Trump has a very different plan he has a very different plan |
| 1:18.1 | just look at his Project 2025 agenda. |
| 1:25.0 | And they've seized on it in campaign ads. |
| 1:28.0 | Project 2025 is a plan to return America to a dark past. |
| 1:35.0 | They have told us exactly what they're going to do. |
| 1:39.0 | The goals in Project 2025 are clear. |
| 1:42.0 | It should be subtitled how to screw the in Project 2025 are clear. |
| 1:42.6 | It should be subtitled how to screw the working people. |
| 1:46.3 | That's how it should be listed. |
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