DCCC - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

09/30/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/30/2024 13:18

House Republicans Try to Hide Their Wildly Unpopular Project 2025 Agenda

House Republicans have spent the past two years of their majority pushing Donald Trump's Project 2025, actively trying to legislate the far-right agenda's least popular schemes - including restricting access to medication abortion, raising prescription drug prices, and raising taxes on middle class families.

Polling released by the DCCC shows that 56% of registered voters dislike Project 2025, including 62% of independents. So it's no wonder that vulnerable House Republicans are desperately trying to cover up their record as they return to their districts for the final weeks of the campaign.

Read more about how Democrats are holding House Republicans accountable for their Project 2025 below:

  • Democrats are using Project 2025, the conservative policy agenda that has plagued former President Donald Trump's campaign, to also target down-ballot Republicans as they look to flip the closely divided House in November.

  • The proposed governing plan's emergence on the congressional map is another testament to its remarkable political transformation this year, evolving from a conservative think tank's little-known policy agenda to a prominent issue on the campaign trail.

  • Already, at least four House Democratic candidates have used paid media to elevate the issue in their battleground contests this month. In at least two cases, they released ads focused solely on the GOP candidates' supposed support of Project 2025, using it to attack them as extremists bent on reducing abortion rights and harming the social safety net.

  • "Zach Nunn's voting record is the blueprint for a controversial plan called Project 2025," said the narrator in one ad targeting GOP Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, where Democratic nominee Lanon Baccam is running against him.

  • Progressive pollsters say the way a policy blueprint like Project 2025 has emerged as a key issue this year is without precedent, at least in recent political history.

  • "I cannot think of a single parallel that comes even close," said Maryann Cousens, polling and analytics manager for the Navigator poll, which has polled on the public's views of Project 2025 since early summer.

  • A recent poll from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of battleground House districts found 56% of registered voters have an unfavorable view of Project 2025, including 62% of independents. Those numbers broadly align with other surveys.