RIP Project 2025?

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Project 2025 and J.D. Vance have brought fringe policies to the presidential campaign. Democrats are using both to label the Republican ticket "weird." Shelby Talcott of Semafor and Eli Stokols from Politico explain how this messaging strikes voters. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Matt Collette and Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Earlier this year today explained brought you an episode about Project 2025 the 900
0:05.9	page Heritage Foundation Fever Dream slash conservative blueprint for America.
0:11.5	More recently it has run into trouble. The problems all started
0:15.6	when people read what was in it. There is a section that indicates that women's
0:19.9	fertility should be measured and tracked monthly.
0:23.4	They want to mandate that all students in schools receiving federal funding
0:28.0	must complete the Armed Services Vocational aptitude battery.
0:33.7	In plain English, that's a military entrance exam.
0:37.0	Recognizing its unpopularity with both parties,
0:39.9	the Trump campaign has tried to distance itself.
0:42.5	However, it turns out Vance wrote the foreword
0:45.9	for a forthcoming book written by Project 2025's
0:49.6	architect Kevin Roberts.
0:52.0	Now, the leader of Project 2025 has stepped down. Is it over? We have answers
0:57.3	coming up.
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