Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday criticized Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration.
“The reason Trump hasn't spoken about this is because their agenda is extreme and divisive,” Harris told supporters in Fayetteville, referring to comments made by Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, Trump's running mate, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “You can't claim unity if you're pursuing policies that strip entire groups of Americans of fundamental freedoms, opportunity and dignity.”
Harris has been campaigning while President Biden has been on a campaign hiatus since testing positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, and Biden has come under pressure from within his own party and major donors to withdraw from the race.
The 900-page document, “Project 2025,” was prepared by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation and is not affiliated with the Trump campaign, and Trump has distanced himself from the proposal as Democrats try to paint it as unhelpful to him.
From reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI to tackling issues like abortion and immigration, efforts led by some of the nation's leading conservative think tanks are outlined in separate chapters for each agency.
“From what I've heard, it's not that they've gone too far, it's that they've gone too far,” Trump told Fox News' Harris Faulkner this week. “They really have gone too far.”
In a post on Truth Social, he called the plan “utterly ridiculous and terrible.”
“I know nothing about Project 2025, nor do I know who is behind it,” Trump wrote. “I don't agree with some of what they say, and some of what they say is completely ridiculous and disgusting. I wish them the best of luck in whatever they do, but I have no affiliation with them.”
Fox News Digital's Kyle Morris contributed to this report.