Posted on 07/25/2024 1:23:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
A campaign official for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris acknowledged Wednesday that the vice president is deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025.
CNN first reported the stunning admission as part of a fact-check article accusing Harris of making false claims about Project 2025 and former President Donald Trump’s stance on Social Security. CNN’s Daniel Dale revealed:
A Harris campaign official said the campaign has ‘made a deliberate decision to brand all of Trump’s policies’ as ‘Project 2025,’ since they believe ‘it has stuck with voters.’
Since entering the presidential race Sunday, Harris and her campaign have repeatedly tried to link Project 2025 to Trump, despite the former president’s pushback.
A few hours before CNN published its fact-check story Wednesday, Trump called links to Project 2025 “merely disinformation put out by the Radical Left Democrat Thugs. Do not believe them!”
Launched by The Heritage Foundation two years ago, Project 2025 has grown to a coalition of 110 conservative organizations developing a transition plan for the next presidential administration. Its work is nonpartisan and available to whomever occupies the White House in January 2025.
CNN’s report is the first public admission from Democrats or the Harris campaign that their strategy is to deliberately mislead voters about Trump.
Their attacks on Project 2025 escalated following President Joe Biden’s widely panned June 27 debate performance. In response, several liberal media outlets have published fact-check articles disputing Biden’s claims—and now those of Harris.
CNN, for example, examined Harris’ comments at her first campaign rally Tuesday about Project 2025:
When you read it, you will see Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and make working families foot the bill. They intend to end the Affordable Care Act. And take us back, then, to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions.
After reviewing “Mandate for Leadership,” the Project 2025 book of policy recommendations, CNN concluded:
One of Harris’ claims about Project 2025 is false, while another is at least misleading. The Project 2025 document does not show that Trump intends to cut Social Security; the document barely discusses Social Security at all and does not propose cuts to the program. In addition, contrary to Harris’ suggestion, Project 2025 does not call to ‘end’ the Affordable Care Act or eliminate its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
Another fact-check article, published Wednesday by VERIFY, a website devoted to stopping the spread of false information, debunked a myth that Project 2025 called for the elimination of individualized education plans, commonly known as IEPs.
“Neither Project 2025 nor The Heritage Foundation have called specifically for IEPs to be eliminated,” authors Megan Loe and Kelly Jones wrote. “IEPs aren’t mentioned anywhere in ‘Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise,’ which outlines the plan for Project 2025.”
Previously, a USA Today fact-check article rated false the Democrats’ claim that “Project 2025 is a plan from Trump.”
Project 2025 is a political playbook created by the Heritage Foundation and dozens of other conservative groups, not Trump, who said he disagrees with elements of the effort.
Despite these and other fact-check articles, Harris’ campaign and the Democrat National Committee continued to make false assertions about Project 2025 as of publication of this Daily Signal story. To combat the misinformation, Project 2025 has debunked the most notable myths.
They apologize for getting caught. Fake news ran with it as usual
I know two Democrats who think Project 2025 is Trump’s.
I said his is Agenda47, not Project 2025.
Even when I showed them Agenda47 on Trump’s website they still didn’t believe me.
Well, President Trump did label her as Lying Kamala, a "A Lying, Radical Left LUNATIC". Nice for CNN to confirm.
I’ve never followed Project 2025 but, given who is behind it, I wouldn’t bother wasting time on it. Establishment Republicans are not my cuppa and their goals and aims are not mine, either. I’m with Trump, and he needs to come up with a great slogan that makes clear 1) he makes up the goals, no one does it for him; 2) lies slime the liar, not the innocent who is lied about.
Bookmark.
If they lie about P2025, they lie about everything - and that is the formal approach I would take as a Trump campaign manager. And I would repeat it over and over and over and over
YES, FAKE NEWS IS FAKE NEWS.
AS USUAL THE MEDIA LIES.
The Democrats are under the false impression that we are as stupid as their own voters. We are not.
What difference does it make now? Lies are lies and they can’t be undone.
The word is LIE. The word “mislead” sounds like it was an accident.
Project 2025 is stupid. It shows that so-called conservative central planning policy wonks inside the beltway are just as stupid as Maoist central planning policy wonks inside the beltway.
None of them are capable of solving the world’s ills because both sides are locked in the inside the beltway delusion that they run the world, or ought to.
Where’s the link to CNN stating this?
Liberal fact checkers blowing the whistle on Harris campaign?
Part of the convention dump Harris plan?
The problem is JD Vance wrote the Forward to the book. So trump will be part of the ticket that one member agrees with it.
It's usually somebody like Paul Ryan getting paid to come up with Project 2025. They never took it seriously. Now they're out having dinner at a fancy steakhouse. Paid by the think tank, of course.
Leftists found this and decided to run with it. Propaganda is effective if you repeat it over and over.
Don’t write a manifesto and then the other side has a hard time beating you over the head with your manifesto.
To be fair, Paul Ryan is not really on our side. And he was the former Speaker of the House. So we had a lot of Elitists in our party. From what I understand, many of them became Democrats during the Trump Era.
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In other words, LYING, DISINFORMATION, and an attack on our democracy. They are always doing what they accuse others of doing.
“Project 2025 is stupid. It shows that so-called conservative central planning policy wonks inside the beltway are just as stupid as Maoist central planning policy wonks inside the beltway.”
It’s not a good thing to run on, because it’s an easy mark for the far left. Gays on X act like it recommends putting them in cages. Trump himself has condemned the thing several times, but that won’t matter to the left. Kind of reminds me of the Moral Majority in 1981. Reagan jettisoned them by 1984.
The good thing is the machine is attacking this thing and Vance, meaning they think Trump is a harder target.
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