Joe Biden's campaign is set to go on the offensive against Republican challenger Donald Trump, starting with a focus on Project 2025, an effort to plan for a second Trump term, led by the dark-money, big-spending Heritage Foundation and back-room GOP operative Leonard Leo, who has ties to scandals surrounding U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito. and John Roberts.
At the heart of the Biden offensive is a plan to upstage Project 2025 by injecting it with a dose of its own medicine. The plan likely will serve as a backstory in Biden's State of the Union Address (SOTU) tonight. Axios' Mike Allen writes:
The Biden-Harris campaign plans to try to usurp Project 2025 — the name of a well-funded Heritage Foundation effort to prepare for a second Trump administration — to brand warnings about the former president's policies.
- Project 2025 is the most extensive effort ever to prepare for a presidential transition — laying out policy priorities on health care, abortion, immigration and more.
How does Team Biden plan to draw Project 2025 into a spotlight Leonard Leo probably does not welcome? Mike Allen explains:
President Biden's campaign tells me Project 2025 resonates on social media, and in conversations with voters, as shorthand for what former President Trump would do if he won in November.
- So the Biden campaign's rapid-response architects will start using the term themselves.
- They'll use this frame to go after Trump on abortion, tax fairness, lowering health care and housing costs, and Social Security and Medicare.
What's next: In conjunction with tomorrow's State of the Union address, look for Biden campaign officials to unveil a slew of "Trump's Project 2025" documents, amplified through social channels.
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