Sen. Marco Rubio , who is reportedly a finalist for Donald Trump ‘s running mate, tried to create distance between the Republican nominee and Project 2025 , a conservative agenda concocted by The Heritage Foundation . “Think tanks do think tank stuff.
They come up with ideas. They say things,” Rubio said on CNN’s State of the Union , denying involvement with the 887-page policy agenda the group has written as guidelines for the next Republican president. It’s worth noting that as president, according to the foundation itself, Trump enacted approximately two-thirds of Heritage’s policy agenda during his first year in office alone.
Heritage officials told Axios in 2023 that they had briefed both Trump’s and Rubio’s campaigns. "Well he's not running for president, is he?" — Marco Rubio on a Project 2025 leader saying the "second American revolution" will "remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be" pic.twitter.
com/Svv7EOJIvk “I can assure you, I don’t have them with me today,” Rubio told Dana Bash after she showed him a clip of Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts saying, “We are in the process of the second American revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be.” Project 2025 is an extremist conservative policy agenda drafted at least in part by people in Trump’s orbit, including former Trump administration aide John McEntee , Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought , former Trum.
