The book by the president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, which oversees the controversial Project 2025, has been delayed until after the November election.
Early Light by Kevin D. Roberts was scheduled for release on September 24. But after a public outcry over Project 2025’s policy proposals for the incoming Republican administration, Roberts said he would delay his book. after election day.
“There’s time for writing and reading and book tours — and time to put down the books and fight like hell to take our country back,” he said. RealClearPolitics was first let me know.
The announcement comes after a difficult two weeks for former president Donald Trump. he was trying to get away From Project 2025, the foreword to Roberts’ book has received increasing attention, Written by Trump’s nomineeSenator JD Vance of Ohio.
The project provided enough fodder for 2025 Democratic attacks On Trump, he has been associated with some of the most inflammatory policy proposals and ideas for reshaping the federal government. The group, led by former Trump administration staffers and policy aides, has partnered with more than 100 conservative groups, some with ties to Trump, to push the administration’s agenda.
On Tuesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ new running mate, made his debut in front of thousands of people at a rally in Philadelphia.
“Vance literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda,” Walz said.
In a memo released Wednesday, the Harris campaign is also training volunteers to “highlight the most extreme aspects of Project 2025” when speaking to voters in battleground states, including those on abortion, Social Security and Medicare.
There is Trump condemned Project 2025said it had “nothing to do” with its 900-plus page mandate and that “most of the points were good” while others were “absolutely ridiculous”.
“I don’t know who is behind this” he said early last month. At the end of the month, he said any connection between him and the project was “disinformation”.
After Trump publicly criticized it, the Heritage Foundation official leading the effort stepped aside. Then Trump’s campaign issued a statement marks the “death” of the project.