Biden campaign zeros in on Project 2025 in NC as GOP convenes to nominate Trump

The Biden-Harris presidential campaign is holding a press tour across North Carolina this week focused on “Project 2025,” aiming to provide Democratic counter-programming as Republicans officially nominate Donald Trump at their national convention in Milwaukee.

Party leaders, elected officials, health care providers and Republican voters backing Biden will stop in Raleigh, Charlotte and Greensboro this week for a series of press conferences hosted by the campaign. At issue will be Project 2025 — a wide-ranging policy agenda for a potential second Trump administration sketched out by former Trump White House officials.

The North Carolina tour comes as the president and his allies increasingly home in on the 900-page plan as a key issue on the campaign trail. Project 2025 proposes significant overhauls to the federal workforce, an expansion of presidential power and an array of conservative policy priorities.

Among those policies would be a mass deportation operation, widespread tariffs on imported goods, and revoking FDA approval of mifepristone, an abortion medication.

As Biden blasts Project 2025, Trump denies knowledge of it

Biden has said Project 2025, if enacted, will “destroy America.” His campaign has branded it as “Trump’s Project 2025.”

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The former president wrote on his social media site Truth Social last week that he knows “nothing” about the plan.

“I have no idea who is behind it,” Trump wrote. “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”

The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, created Project 2025. But among the plan’s authors and endorsers are more than two dozen former Trump administration officials.

Though originally published in April 2023, recent comments from the Heritage Foundation’s president brought a new wave of scrutiny to the proposal.

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Kevin Roberts said in an early July interview.

In a news release distributed Tuesday, the Biden-Harris campaign linked the conservative plan directly to Trump and described it as a dire threat: