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Poll shows Project 2025 is an albatross for Trump’s campaign
A new poll published Sunday by NBC News includes data on Project 2025 that ought to be seen as proof of concept for liberals and their political messaging.
The data shows Project 2025a Heritage Foundation plan drafted largely by Donald Trump associates as a far-right playbook for a second Trump administration, is very unpopular among voters.
According to NBC News:
[O]n Project 2025 — the conservative policy blueprint with ties to former Trump administration officials, which Democrats have featured in their campaign — a whopping 57% of voters have a negative view of it, versus just 4% who see it in a positive light.
Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 despite his previous praise for the Heritage Foundation’s policymakingseveral of Project 2025’s contributors having served in his administrationand hundreds of its proposals matching policies he has endorsed.
The NBC News poll, which was conducted this month and has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, shows how toxic the plan could ultimately be for his campaign. Of course, conservatives bear much of the responsibility for whatever negative impact Trump’s links to Project 2025 have on his White House bid. After all, they’re the ones who not only backed the dangerous policies in it, but also posted them in an easily accessible document online. But liberals, and, frankly, everyone concerned about Project 2025’s proposals, deserve credit for the dogged and, at times, innovative ways they have raised — and continue to raise — awareness about them.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign have kept the proposals front of mind with their frequent references to “Trump’s Project 2025 agenda” in campaign speeches, social media posts and in commercials or scripted information segments. Remember when the Democrats tapped Kenan Thompson for a Project 2025-themed Q&A during the party’s national convention last month?
There have been many other contributions to the Project 2025 information mill. Actor Taraji P. Henson helped spread the word to an audience of millions when she used a segment of the BET Awards in June to warn about Project 2025. Young content creators online sprung to action around that time, too, using social media platforms to inform users about the conservative policy proposals. Other social media users boosted news coverage about Project 2025, which we at “The ReidOut” experienced firsthand in July as posts about Joy Reid’s then-upcoming coverage of the proposals trended online. And even cartoonists and artificial intelligence technicians deployed their talents to satirize and organize Project 2025’s ideas in an effort to make them more understandable and accessible to the public.
All of this has evolved Project 2025 from a set of largely unknown policy proposals to one of the most potent political memes of the 2024 election.
Ja’han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He’s a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America’s operations after it had effectively been shut down a year ago, putting hundreds of employees who have been on administrative leave back to work.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth gave the U.S. Agency for Global Media a week to put together a plan for putting Voice of America on the air. It has been operating with a skeleton staff since President Donald Trump issued an executive order to shut it down.
A week ago, Lamberth said Kari Lake, who had been Trump’s choice to lead the agency, did not have the legal authority to do what she had done at Voice of America. In Tuesday’s decision, Lamberth ruled on the actions she had taken to respond to Trump’s order, essentially shelving 1,042 of VOA’s 1,147 employees.
“Defendants have provided nothing approaching a principled basis for their decision,” Lamberth wrote.
There was no immediate comment on the decision by the agency overseeing Voice of America. Lake had denounced Lamberth’s March 7 ruling, saying it would be appealed. Since then, Trump nominated Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, to run USAGM. That requires Senate approval, a step that was not taken with Lake.
Patsy Widakuswara, Voice of America’s White House bureau chief and a plaintiff in the lawsuit to restore it, said she is deeply grateful for the decision.
“We are eager to begin repairing the damage Kari Lake has inflicted on our agency and our colleagues, to return to our congressional mandate, and to rebuild the trust of the global audience we have been unable to serve for the past year,” she said.
“We know the road to restoring VOA’s operations and reputation will be long and difficult,” she said. “We hope the American people will continue to support our mission to produce journalism, not propaganda.”
Voice of America has transmitted news coverage to countries around the world since its formation in World War II, often in countries with no tradition of a free press. Before Trump’s executive order, VOA had operated in 49 different languages, broadcasting to 362 million people.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America’s operations after it had effectively been shut down a year ago, putting hundreds of employees who have been on administrative leave back to work.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth gave the U.S. Agency for Global Media a week to put together a plan for putting Voice of America on the air. It has been operating with a skeleton staff since President Donald Trump issued an executive order to shut it down.
A week ago, Lamberth said Kari Lake, who had been Trump’s choice to lead the agency, did not have the legal authority to do what she had done at Voice of America. In Tuesday’s decision, Lamberth ruled on the actions she had taken to respond to Trump’s order, essentially shelving 1,042 of VOA’s 1,147 employees.
“Defendants have provided nothing approaching a principled basis for their decision,” Lamberth wrote.
There was no immediate comment on the decision by the agency overseeing Voice of America. Lake had denounced Lamberth’s March 7 ruling, saying it would be appealed. Since then, Trump nominated Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, to run USAGM. That requires Senate approval, a step that was not taken with Lake.
Patsy Widakuswara, Voice of America’s White House bureau chief and a plaintiff in the lawsuit to restore it, said she is deeply grateful for the decision.
“We are eager to begin repairing the damage Kari Lake has inflicted on our agency and our colleagues, to return to our congressional mandate, and to rebuild the trust of the global audience we have been unable to serve for the past year,” she said.
“We know the road to restoring VOA’s operations and reputation will be long and difficult,” she said. “We hope the American people will continue to support our mission to produce journalism, not propaganda.”
Voice of America has transmitted news coverage to countries around the world since its formation in World War II, often in countries with no tradition of a free press. Before Trump’s executive order, VOA had operated in 49 different languages, broadcasting to 362 million people.
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