Project 2025, Suddenly Everywhere, Explained

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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President Biden is telling people to Google it. Former president Donald J. Trump is distancing himself from it. Even the actress Taraji P. Henson talked about it onstage at the B.E.T. Awards. Project 2025. It’s a blueprint for an incoming conservative president — presumably Donald Trump — spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. And now it is everywhere in this tumultuous moment of the 2024 presidential race. But what is it? Is it a guide to a possible second Trump administration? And why are Democrats seizing on it now, as Biden struggles to quiet doubts about his ability to defeat Trump? This week, we’re working through those questions. On today’s episode: Jonathan Swan, who covers politics and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for The New York Times. Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California.

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0:00.0	Just a couple days after President Biden's disastrous debate performance.
0:07.0	I'm telling y'all you better show up and show out with them ballots.
0:14.8	Actress Taraji P Henson gave a speech at the B.E.T. Awards.
0:19.1	They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens. The Project 2025 plan is not a game. Look it up!
0:28.8	Where she mentioned something called Project 2025, a Republican blueprint for the next conservative president,
0:36.0	presumably Donald Trump.
0:38.0	And in the days since, it seemed like it's everywhere.
0:43.0	More and more people online are talking about Project 2025.
0:47.0	We should all be absolutely terrified of what's in Project 2025.
0:53.0	On social media platforms like Instagram and Tik-Toc.
0:57.0	The Far-Write Conservatives are revealing their hand now.
1:00.0	They have given us the blueprint on what they want to enact in the next conservative presidency.
1:04.0	A lot of people have expressed alarm.
1:06.0	If you cannot afford to move out of this country within the next year, I need you to take Project 2025
1:11.0	and Trump potentially getting reelected very seriously.
1:14.0	I just read what Trump's Project 2025 would do to LGBTQ people and you've got to see this.
1:20.0	So Project 2025 is what Donald Trump and the Republican Party are trying to push through and it will literally change the way that our government works and it's so insane and let's go through it.
1:28.0	It is a thorough plan for how they're going to change the country fundamentally to a place that is unrecognizable
1:34.1	to almost all of us.
1:36.2	And Democrats are seizing on to that concern, particularly as President Biden faces
1:41.6	mounting questions about the viability of his candidacy.
1:45.0	On Wednesday morning, Biden himself invokes Project 2025 on social media.
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