Democrats are ramping up their attacks on Project 2025, the sweeping conservative strategy designed to guide the next Republican president, intensifying their public messaging campaign during the long August recess with plans to escalate those efforts even further in the final sprint to November’s elections.
A small House Democratic task force formed to combat Project 2025 has warned for months that the controversial GOP agenda poses a material threat to the country’s democratic traditions.
But as the attention surrounding Project 2025 has swelled outside the Beltway — and public surveys increasingly reveal that voters broadly oppose its contents — Democrats also see the conservative strategy as something else: a political goldmine, one that both validates their warnings about the perils of a second Trump administration and holds the potential to drive voters to their side on Election Day.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met twice with members of the Democratic task force in his Capitol office before the long August recess. He’s coordinating with the group on several Project 2025 forums on Capitol Hill when Congress reconvenes in September. And he’s eyeing several related field hearings around the country in the final weeks leading into November’s elections, hoping the 11th-hour scrutiny will push apprehensive voters towards Democrats at the polls.
The heavy involvement of Democratic leaders marks an evolution in how the opposition task force is operating, as members of the party brass — from Jeffries, at the highest tier, to the leaders of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), which acts as the party’s messaging arm — step off the sidelines to join the messaging blitz.
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