On Fox News, Project 2025 contributor says Michelle Obama will run for president because she “squares the Kamala Harris circle: being a minority and a DEI hire”
Monica Crowley: “She's immune to criticism as a woman of color”
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Project 2025 is a massive right-wing plan led by the Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing to a future Republican president. Monica Crowley is a former Trump administration official and right-wing media figure touted for a position in a second Trump term; she is listed as a contributor in the Project 2025 policy book, Mandate for Leadership.
Citation From the July 21, 2024, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): This is just like lambs to the slaughter. They're looking at Biden, tell me how you see it — they're looking at Biden landslide, Kamala, and one of these white midwestern guys. Maybe a little less of a landslide, Monica?
MONICA CROWLEY (PROJECT 2025 CONTRIBUTOR): Well assuming, Jesse, that it ends up being Kamala Harris as the nominee and I know a lot of big Democrats are endorsing her. But the one voice that's been silent on Kamala is Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama. They've been very quiet. So, I think maybe Michelle Obama still may be in the mix. That being said, if in fact, they go head --
WATTERS: Wait, wait, a second. Is Michelle Obama — Michelle Obama's in the mix? Is in the mix in Chicago in her hometown?
CROWLEY: Well, there is a reason why the Democrats moved their convention to Chicago, Jesse. So, they could recruit her, they could position her as the reluctant candidate. She's a woman of color so that squares the Kamala Harris circle: being a minority and a DEI hire. So, Michelle Obama dismisses all of that.
Look, I don't know how likely that is but I don't want everyone falling into this trap that Kamala Harris is the defacto candidate for the Democrats. This story is not over yet. Jesse, realize that the left's powerbrokers never move without a plan. So, while everybody is distracted with this chaos circus, there are powers that be, namely Barack and Michelle Obama and the entire Obama machine that's essentially run this country over the last three and a half years that wants an Obama 4 and 5.0.
And what better way to do that to run Michelle where they can position her as somebody who didn't really want to do it but she was recruited. She's a pristine candidate. She's immune to criticism as a woman of color. And if they run her they could raise about a billion dollars in two, three days.