Trump seeks to activate his base at Moms for Liberty gathering but risks alienating moderate voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to appear Friday at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has spearheaded efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ+ identity and structural racism out of K-12 classrooms.
52% : The bulk of the group's 130,000-plus members are conservatives who agree with him that parents should have more say in public education and that racial equity programs and transgender accommodations don't belong in schools.
46% : "But will that be enough to outdo the backlash?"Trump hasn't shared details of what he'll discuss at the gathering, but his campaign pointed to his education proposals, which include promoting school choice, giving parents more say in education and awarding funding preference to states and school districts that abolish teacher tenure, financially reward good teachers and allow parents to directly elect school principals.
41% : The group also has voiced support for Project 2025, a detailed and controversial playbook for the next conservative presidency from which Trump has repeatedly distanced himself.
39% : Trump held a rally near the Johnstown airport weeks before the 2020 election, boasting, "We brought back steel and we put tariffs on steel.
27% : The negative perceptions about Moms for Liberty around the country could increase the potential liability for Trump as he sits down with co-founder Tiffany Justice on Friday evening, said University of Central Florida political science professor Aubrey Jewett.
25% : "His campaign says Trump will use the rally to promise lower energy costs and criticize Harris, noting that, as a Democratic presidential primary candidate in 2019, she supported a ban on hydraulic fracturing.
22% : Yet Trump also will run the risk of alienating more moderate voters, many of whom see Moms for Liberty's activism as too extreme to be legitimized by a presidential nominee.
10% : The Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has criticized Trump for his threats to dismantle the Department of Education.

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