A Stop Project 2025 sign during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Democrats repeatedly attacked Project 2025 during the previous White House race as a far-right threat to the nation. Then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his campaign distanced themselves from the document, even as many Trump allies helped draft it.
But Trump, during the opening months of his second tour of duty in the White House, executed much of what was proposed in Project 2025. And Russell T. Vought, who was a key member of the team that produced the document, now leads the Office of Management and Budget.
The Democrats are aiming to escape the political wilderness following setbacks in the 2024 elections, when they lost control of the White House and Senate, and fell short in their bid to recapture the House majority. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, asked about Project 2029, welcomed more ideas to the party's conversation.
But Carville told Fox News Digital that "the person Democrats need to look to, whose ideas will count, is the next presidential nominee. People can throw ideas out and the different candidates can respond in one way or another, but the idea that a political party can develop a message outside of having some power – it's been done before, but it's quite difficult."
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Word of Project 2029 comes amid continued divisions in the Democratic Party between its establishment and progressive wins.
And it comes as the stunning victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary by outsider and 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani over former three-term Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reignited the party's argument over whether the Democrats' problem is their policy or their messaging.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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