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RandySF

(65,615 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2024, 06:44 PM Jul 26

JD Vance said Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts is "somebody I rely on a lot who has very good advice"

In January, Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said that Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts “is somebody I rely on a lot who has very good advice, very good political instincts.” From NOTUS (emphasis added):

The Heritage Foundation is leading Project 2025, a far-right staffing and policy initiative backed by more than 100 conservative partner groups that seeks to remake the federal government into a vehicle for Trumpism. The proposals in the project’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership, would severely diminish reproductive, LGBTQ, and civil rights, implement draconian immigration policy, and crush climate change mitigation efforts.

The Trump campaign has attempted to distance itself from Project 2025 as it becomes increasingly toxic, in spite of numerous well-documented ties between the Trump campaign and the project. A CNN review found that there are “nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump,” and at least 140 former Trump administration staffers contributed to the project.

Vance brings his own close ties to Project 2025 and Heritage. In October 2023, Roberts and Vance wrote a joint op-ed in The Hill titled “Don’t hold up Israel aid to further Ukraine War funding.” Vance reposted the op-ed to his official Senate website.



https://www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/jd-vance-said-project-2025-architect-kevin-roberts-somebody-i-rely-lot-who-has-very-good

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JD Vance said Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts is "somebody I rely on a lot who has very good advice" (Original Post) RandySF Jul 26 OP
Man we don't even have to listen to Trump anymore.. DemocratInPa Jul 26 #1
Vance should take over the entire campaign. Irish_Dem Jul 26 #4
I think someone needs to conduct a welfare check NoveltySocks Jul 26 #2
All the JD posts mean that he is the media's new GOP "it." Raven123 Jul 26 #3
If you think that this is a good thing, to rely on such a scumbag who put out such a trashy and un-American SWBTATTReg Jul 26 #5

SWBTATTReg

(23,443 posts)
5. If you think that this is a good thing, to rely on such a scumbag who put out such a trashy and un-American
Fri Jul 26, 2024, 06:56 PM
Jul 26

book, you are far more sicker in the head that I thought. We don't need any more weirdos in this Country, we have enough w/ tRUMP.

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