Harris-Walz: ‘Trump’s Project 2025 Would Take Black America Backwards’

The Harris-Walz campaign continues to double down on claims that Project 2025 threatens Black Americans, connecting Donald Trump to the conservative agenda that they say he would move forward with if elected to serve a second term.  In an ad titled “Backwards”, the campaign lays out “Trump’s extreme plans and the devastating impact they would have on Black Americans,” according to a press release from the Harris-Walz campaign. The ad accuses Trump of planning to strip away voting rights, eliminate the U.S. Department of Education, harm women’s reproductive rights and more. “Trump’s Project 2025 agenda will give him unchecked political power with no guardrails, and it would take Black America backwards,” the narrator says in the ad. “Project 2025 would strip away our voting rights protections, and it eliminates the Department of Education. It would also require states to monitor women’s pregnancies. It bans abortion and would rip away health coverage for millions.” However, Trump has repeatedly downplayed the claims about implementing Project 2025, saying he’s unfamiliar with it and calling it extremely conservative. Democrats continue to link him to the conservative agenda. Some of the authors of it have worked for the Trump administration, according to several news sources....