Project 2025, GOP platform blast California, teeing up attacks on possible Biden stand-ins

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : For example, Los Angeles and other major California cities decline to use their police forces or city personnel to enforce immigration laws.
56% : In its phrasing, the GOP platform is at times bombastic -- just like Trump, who helped draft it -- and lays out a relatively clear framework for how he intends to govern in sharp contrast to California leaders.
50% : Calling California and other liberal states "sanctuaries for abortion tourism," the plan says the Trump administration should "push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America," work with Congress to enact antiabortion laws, and mandate state reporting of abortion data to the federal government -- including patients' state of residence and "reason" for receiving a procedure.
41% : Although Project 2025 is authored in large part by prominent advisors and former appointees of Trump, he has recently sought to distance himself from the plan.
36% : A Times survey earlier this year found that 50% of U.S. adults believe California is in decline, with 48% of Republicans saying it is "not really American."If Trump wins, California is expected to lead the liberal resistance to Trump's agenda, just as it did during his first term, experts said.
35% : "The plan calls on Trump, if elected, to "make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors" -- a process that it says should start with deleting all references to queer identities, "diversity, equity, and inclusion," abortion or "reproductive health" from federal legislation and rules.
35% : On Tuesday, Harris called out Project 2025 at a campaign event in Las Vegas, noting that it calls for the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education, cuts to Social Security and a nationwide abortion ban.
30% : The idea is also evoked more subtly in the much snappier, 16-page Republican Party platform spearheaded by Trump and adopted by party officials last week, which criticizes American politicians who "insulated themselves from criticism and the consequences of their own bad actions" while average Americans suffered.
19% : In an online post July 5, Trump wrote that he knew "nothing about it," but also that "some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."
8% : "Democrats, including Biden, have repeatedly tied Trump to Project 2025, saying his claims of distance from it are absurd given how many people in his orbit are leading it.
7% : Experts said that if Biden is replaced by Harris or Newsom -- who are considered leading candidates amid a swirl of doubt about Biden's age and ability to defeat Trump -- conservative derision about California and its liberal policies will increase, and find a receptive audience in many parts of the country.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.