President Joe Biden launched a blistering attack against the “right-wing Project 2025” during his rally critical battlegroound state Michigan on Friday night.
“Folks, Project 2025 is the biggest attack on our system of government and on our personal freedom that’s ever been proposed in the history of this country,” Biden remarked.
He claimed that the initiative “is run and paid for by Trump people” and serves as “a blueprint for a second Trump.”
Biden warned that the country would face a “nightmare” if the ex-president is reelected and puts Project 2025 in place.
“Another four years of Donald Trump is deadly serious. Project 2025 is deadly serious,” he stated.
The president acknowledged that there bas been “a lot of speculation lately” about whether he’ll remain in the race, but said he wouldn’t back down. “I am running, and we’re going to win!” he declared.
Project 2025 is a comprehensive 900-page policy framework that would overhaul the federal govenrment, restructure tax code, and implement an array of policy changes. The document was crafted by former Trump officials at the Heritage Foundation.
Biden is focusing on Project 2025 as a tool to unite the Democratic Party, which is currently at odds over his political future.
A Biden aide indicated that the president’s campaign would continue highlighting Project 2025 at the upcoming GOP convention.
Trump denied having anything to do with Project 2025, and pointed towards the Republican National Committee’s recently released 2024 party platform.
“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it,” he stated on his social media platform Truth Social on Thursday.
“The Radical Left Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever policies are stated or said,” Trump added.
Notably, top Michigan Democrats were absent from Biden’s rally, with no congressional candidates up for election this year in attendance.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has dismissed reports suggesting she said Biden’s poor debate performance tanked his chance at being reelected, was a no-show.
Whitmer, often mentioned as a potential replacement at the top of the ticket, was reportedly attending the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho, a gathering of tech moguls and prominent business leaders.
On Wednesday, Whitmer soft-attacked Biden by suggesting that it “wouldn’t hurt” for him to take a cognitive test.
“I don’t think that it would hurt,” Whitmer remarked after CNN’s Abby Phillip asked her if she thought both aging candidates should submit to one.
Whitmer did say that the debate was “not a great success” for Biden, but opposed calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 campaign.
“He shows up every day and fights for the American public. He cares about other people more than he cares about himself,” she commented on “NewsNight.”
“That’s precisely why I think this moment where we have Donald Trump, who’s been convicted of 34 felonies, who cares only about Donald Trump, we can’t lose sight of how high these stakes are,” Whitmer cautioned.
“We have a field, and unless one person, Joe Biden, makes an alternative decision, this is the field, and we’ve got to go.”
Democratic congressional candidates Curtis Hertel Jr. and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, both engaged in competitive races, were also missing.
Earlier this week, Sen. Gary Peters, claimed that Biden “absolutely” could defeat Trump and that Democrats would retain control of the Senate, but also failed to show up at the rally.
The only Democrats who showed their support and spoke before Biden at the rally were Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist, and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
Joe is down to fear porn…aimed at their own base! Desperation!
Amazing that no one ever photographs the attendance at Biden rallies! Wonder if there were more than a dozen present?