(DailyChive.com) – Vice President Kamala Harris closed out the Democratic National Convention (DNC) with an acceptance speech of her party’s nomination for the presidential race in November, but like most of the convention’s rhetoric, she spent more time attacking her opponent, former President Donald Trump, and Republicans than she did painting a clear policy message.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, Harris listed a series of complaints about her opponent and laid accusations against him that were inaccurate or false. She told her audience of voters and delegates that the Democratic Party knows “what a second Trump term would look like” and then pointed to the infamous Project 2025, claiming it was written by the former president’s “closest advisers” and that it was a plan which would pull the US “back to the past.” Harris then used her new slogan, “We are not going back.”
Project 2025 is a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation laying out a vision for a second Trump presidency, proposing a governmental restructuring. Although a few former Trump administration officials did contribute to the publication, Trump has repeatedly denied having anything to do with it. He said he “had no idea what it was” and that a group “got together” to draw up the conservative plan, which he said perhaps goes “over the line” and perhaps not, but that it wasn’t his campaign platform.
Another one of Harris’ claims during the DNC was that Project 2025 wants to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits, which it does not, nor is Trump advocating for such cuts.
Daniel Alvarez, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said the only official policies endorsed by Trump for his second term are “Agenda 47” and the platform the former president presented at the Republican National Convention (RNC).
The vice president hammered on the issue of abortion, too, and continued to claim Trump wants to pass a federal ban on the practice. Trump has maintained that he doesn’t want a nationwide abortion ban and wants to leave the issue up to each state to decide, and that he is content with the way things are now after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
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