“Project 2025” is a 900-page contribution to his platform written by conservative organizations. He has tried, in vain, to distance himself from it in recent weeks.
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On the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee – in the state of Wisconsin, one of those swing states that could swing one way or the other on November 4 for the American election – are gathered die-hard fans of former President Donald Trump. An assembly with an immense white majority, rather elderly, wearing red caps. When Monica Crowley, the former assistant secretary for public affairs of the American Treasury under Donald Trump, arrives on the platform.
She contributed to this “Project 2025” which plans to “purge” the federal government, placing the Justice Department under the supervision of the president or even hindering the marketing of the abortion pill. But less than two months before the elections in the United States, this roadmap is a pebble in the shoe that Donald Trump is unable to get rid of.
Donald Trump did try to distance himself from the ultraconservative program in August: “I have no idea what this ‘Project 2025’ could be. Some of the ideas are really extreme, but I have nothing to do with it and I don’t want to know anything about it.”
But Monica Crowley’s presence is proof that the former president validates his ideas, defends Lawrence, demonstrating at the foot of the building where the meeting is taking place. “We are here to stop this ‘Project 2025’, because it is clearly against democracy. It plans to take away many rights from us. So, yes, we have to be very vigilant. If we don’t stop this now, then it will be too late.”
Wisconsin voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and then Joe Biden in 2020 by just 20,000 votes. “Project 2025” could scare off undecided voters and moderates who are key to the election.
