Trump Cashiers Project 2025

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Trump's campaign tries to bury a 900-page white paper from the Heritage Foundation, after Democrats turned the document into a political weapon. But will the disavowal work with swing voters? Plus, what does this episode mean for the policy agenda of a second Trump term? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal
0:21.3	this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.3	Donald Trump issues a bracing statement, drop-kicking Project 2025,
0:28.6	a policy and staffing effort from the Conservative Think Tank,
0:31.6	the Heritage Foundation.
0:33.0	Why is the former president running away from a 922-page white paper?
0:37.5	And what does it say about the state of the presidential race and what we might expect from a second Trump term.
0:43.0	Welcome to Potomac Watch.
0:44.5	I'm Kate Batchelder O'Dell, filling in today as your host.
0:47.5	I'm joined by my colleagues on the General's editorial board,
0:50.4	Alicia Finley, and Manet Uquay Bruwa.
0:53.2	Thanks to you both for joining me.
0:54.8	Let's get right into it.
0:56.1	I want to open up by reading a statement, The Trump campaign.
0:59.6	Put out on Tuesday.
1:00.6	Strap yourselves in because this is not the usual Pablum campaigns put out.
1:05.8	President Trump's campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 has nothing
1:10.7	to do with the campaign. Did not speak for the campaign
1:14.4	and should not be associated with the campaign or the president in any way.
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