Trump claims he has 'nothing to do' with Project 2025. Voters don't buy that.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event in April 2022, Trump said, "This is a great group, and they're going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do, and what your movement will do, when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.
63% : The think tank, during the term, bragged that Trump "embraced" and implemented 64% of its recommended policies.
55% : That doesn't mean Trump won't pile his plate high with it if he wins a second term as president in November.
55% : We see a majority of the swing voters that have heard are familiar with Project 2025 are deeply unfavorable as well."The poll of 1,212 likely voters found that 75% of them closely associate Project 2025 with Trump, and that 79% believe he supports the policies in the plan.
51% : But we know Trump relied on The Heritage Foundation for policy during his one term in office.
47% : The poll was sponsored by the advocacy groups End Citizens United, Third Way and MoveOn as a road map for making sure Project 2025 doesn't just stick to Trump but also gets linked to Republicans seeking House seats.
41% : Does anyone believe Trump would read 922 pages of policy?
40% : Trump has a strong motivation to put as much distance as he can between his campaign and the controversy swirling around Project 2025, a 922-page government policy wish list from the hard-right Heritage Foundation.
37% : But to hear Trump and Vance tell it now, Project 2025 is just concept of a plan out there engineered by others with no influence over their campaign.
30% : And that's bad news for Trump and Republicans running down ballot from him for congressional seats.
28% : And they don't believe Trump when he claims "I have nothing to do" with it.
23% : "Trump tried to cast Project 2025 as full of "some ideas, I guess, some good, some bad," while also claiming "I haven't read it.
20% : "Trump on Friday, speaking at a news conference in California, grumbled that the ABC News moderators at Tuesday's debate did not correct Harris for linking him to Project 2025.
11% : Trump and Vance may not have written Project 2025.
3% : Trump repeated that claim during Tuesday's debate after Vice President Kamala Harris went on the attack, calling Project 2025 "a detailed and dangerous plan" that Trump "intends on implementing if he were elected again.

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