Trump taps into culture war issues, seeks to energize base at Moms for Liberty event

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump added that he was supportive of "parental rights" and the mission of Moms for Liberty, which supports vouchers for private school tuition, running for local school boards and dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.
54% : "Donald Trump is celebrating the new school year by pushing his frightening Project 2025 agenda that would hurt kids and dismantle public education as we know it, while Vice President Harris helped deliver the largest public education investment in American history and is fighting for every child to have access to a good school and a shot at the American dream," Joseph Costello, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, said in a statement.
51% : The group, which is a nonprofit, started in Florida and was at the forefront of pushing against mask mandates during school reopenings, eliciting book bans and challenges, and objections to structural racism being discussed in classrooms.
50% : "Across the campaign trail Trump has also floated the idea that parents should be allowed to elect principals in public schools.
50% : Another Heritage session was titled: "Boyhood and the Changing Role of the Man in American Life."While Moms for Liberty rose to prominence in 2021 amid the coronavirus pandemic, with a focus on public schools and culture war topics, its hold on local school board elections has started to wane.
43% : "I'm for parental rights all the way," Trump said.
42% : Justice asked Trump what policies he would enact at the federal level to protect "parental rights," such as school choice, which gives parents an option to enroll their children in a school other than the assigned public one, often using public funding to do so.House Republicans already passed a similar bill last year, but it's likely to go nowhere in the Senate where Democrats hold a slim majority.
38% : Moms for Liberty also sits on an advisory board for Project 2025, which Trump has tried to distance from his campaign as Democrats highlight his ties to the aggressive conservative playbook.
30% : Trump said that Republicans are "the party of common sense.""I mean we're conservative," he said.
27% : This is the second time Trump has attended a Moms for Liberty conference, and while he embraces their culture war issues, the former present has not made "parental rights" a predominant issue in his reelection campaign.
18% : Justice asked Trump what were some of the things he would be able to do as president because "there's been an explosion in the number of children who identify as transgender, and children are being taught that they were born in the wrong body.""Well, you can do everything," Trump said.
17% : "Trump didn't give details on how he would enact education policy changes at the federal level but said he was against public schools allowing transgender students to identify with their gender identity in the classroom.
11% : The Harris campaign criticized Trump for speaking at the event.
10% : "Our country is being poisoned," Trump said of migrants and their children in public schools.
8% : Trump attacked Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, and called her a "Marxist."

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