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DNC puts up billboards in Michigan linking Trump to far-right Project 2025 • Michigan Advance

July 12, 2024
DNC puts up billboards in Michigan linking Trump to far-right Project 2025 • Michigan Advance

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Detroit, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is putting up billboards in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing to link former President Donald Trump to Project 2025.

Launched by the conservative Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 is a collection of far-right policy proposals for a conservative presidential administration. The 900-plus-page “mandate for leadership” includes proposals to restructure the federal government, restrict access to the abortion pill and ban hospitals from performing emergency abortions, reverse climate change efforts, and many other recommendations.

An image of one of the billboards the Democratic National Committee has put up in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing, as well as other cities in swing states. | Image courtesy of the Democratic National Committee

While Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 by Rejection of some of its policies He posted on social media: “I have no idea who is behind this.” The guiding document of this initiative was written by a number of former Trump administration employees. A review by CNN found that at least 140 people who served in the Trump administration contributed to Project 2025, including six former Cabinet members.

Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee adopted its platform 2024which has some overlap with Project 2025 on issues such as immigration, increasing energy production and abolishing the Ministry of Education.

With Biden’s debate performance Cause concern among voters and amid divisions among Democrats over whether the president should withdraw his candidacy, the party has changed course and is now attacking Project 2025, warning that its proposals would harm women, LGBTQ+ people and seniors.

In addition to billboards in Michigan, the DNC is also putting up billboards in cities in the contested states.

An image of one of the billboards the Democratic National Committee has put up in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing, as well as other cities in swing states. | Image courtesy of the Democratic National Committee

The posters appear in both Spanish and English, with one calling Project 2025 “Trump’s plan to be a dictator on day one” and urging voters to Google the project. Allusion to a social media post by Biden.

Another statement said Trump and his Project 2025 would erode checks and balances, exact revenge, and ban abortion nationwide.

While the 2025 project does not explicitly call for a nationwide ban on abortion, their multitude of proposals to regulate pregnancy and abortion would significantly increase the difficulty of obtaining abortion care.

Trump has also shied away from calling for a nationwide ban on abortion. The party has adopted a watered-down stance on abortion in its platform, which states that the party opposes late-term abortions. triggers frustration among Republican anti-abortionists. However Support States that have adopted the personification of the fetus through the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, something long called for by anti-abortion activists. The 19th Amendment states that personification of the fetus “would have the practical effect of prohibiting abortion at all stages of pregnancy” and could apply nationwide depending on the court’s ruling.

An image of one of the billboards the Democratic National Committee has put up in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing, as well as other cities in swing states. | Image courtesy of the Democratic National Committee

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