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(NewsNation) — In the first debate betwixt erstwhile President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a astir 1,000-page handbook from a blimpish deliberation vessel became a means for 1 campaigner to provoke and different to deflect.
Project 2025, written by members of The Heritage Foundation, is simply a usher connected what the adjacent president needs to bash to undo the “damage” to America they assertion has been caused by wide politicians.
During the 90-minute debate, conscionable similar successful astir run speeches, Harris attacked Trump implicit the handbook, saying it "is a elaborate and unsafe plan" that the erstwhile president "intends connected implementing if helium were elected again."
Trump deflected the attack, arguing, "I person thing to bash with Project 2025. I haven't work it. I don't privation to work it purposely."
Harris warned that Trump would motion a nationalist termination ban, referencing Project 2025 again, and said Americans judge the state to marque decisions astir their assemblage should not beryllium controlled by the government.
Trump has previously disavowed the plan, claiming connected his societal media tract that helium has “no idea” who is down Project 2025 and knows “nothing” astir it, but dozens of radical who worked intimately with him and helped signifier his medication are progressive successful the plan.
He’s gotten more hostile to the papers and the radical down it successful caller weeks, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic issuing a warning to anyone linking him to the plan.
Democrats accidental Project 2025 is extremist, “authoritarian” and adjacent dystopian, and the papers has go a large constituent of onslaught arsenic they pass voters that its policies volition beryllium implemented nether a 2nd Trump term.
When it comes to supporting Trump, swing-state voters are divided connected the interaction of Project 2025, according to a caller Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey.
Voters successful seven key battleground states were asked if Project 2025 makes them much oregon little apt to enactment Trump. Overall, a plurality successful each states said it makes nary quality oregon that they weren’t acquainted with the plan.
However, astir conscionable arsenic galore respondents successful each authorities said the conservative roadmap made them little apt to enactment the erstwhile president.
NewsNation's Steph Whiteside, Safia Samee Ali and Andrew Dorn contributed to this report.
