Almost all voters are familiar Project 2025The conservative policy roadmap used by Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party to criticize former President Donald Trump takes a negative view of the plan, A new survey from NBC News shows.
About 57% of registered voters have a negative view of Project 2025, with 51% saying they view the proposal “very” negatively and another 7% “somewhat” negatively. Only 4% of voters said they viewed the conservative policy plan favorably.
52% of independents disapprove of the plan, while 85% of Democrats agree. About 33% of Republicans said they viewed the plan unfavorably, while just 7% said they viewed it favorably, which Trump criticized after Democrats stepped up efforts to merge it and Project 2025.
Voters who identify as “MAGA Republicans” said they viewed the 2025 plan slightly more favorably, with 28% saying they viewed the proposal negatively and 9% saying they viewed the plan favorably.
It was the least popular of all subjects tested in a September NBC News poll — socialism, capitalism, both presidential and vice presidential candidates, the Republican and Democratic parties, Taylor Swift and Elon Musk.
Democrats did efforts Linking Trump to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy roadmap, aims to lay the groundwork for a future Republican administration. The plan is mentioned by name in Harris campaign ads and on the stump by Democrats.
It’s a conservative playbook connected with a handful It is backed by senior former Trump administration officials such as former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and pro-Trump conservative organizations such as Turning Point USA and America First Legal.
But in his April 2022 speech, the former president praised the group’s preparations distance itself from the policy plan since the beginning of July. Vice President Kamala Harris and other top Democrats have joined party leaders in calling the 900-page document, drafted in part by former Trump aides, “Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda.” formative “Stop Project 2025 Task Force”. At the Democratic National Convention this summer, many speakers brought a textbook-sized copy of the plan up to the stage to denounce it in their speeches, and Harris name-checked it in his speech at the convention.
The Trump campaign he said In a statement in July, he said he “welcomed” news of the group’s “death”. In a debate with Harris earlier this month, the former president offered a more mixed view of Project 2025’s proposals, which he said were “some good, some bad” but continued to say he had nothing to do with the plan.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump said he said in a Truth Social post in July. “I don’t know who is behind this”
The national NBC News poll was conducted Sept. 13-17 among 1,000 registered voters — 870 of whom were reached by cellphone — and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.