Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts on Project 2025 and Trump: “Our respective staffs have been in conversation throughout the campaign”
Roberts: “I suspect very soon the President and his staff and I will sit down and talk through all of this.”
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From the July 11, 2024, edition of BlazeTV's Blaze News Tonight
MATTHEW PETERSON (BLAZE MEDIA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF): Have you been in touch, or will you be in touch, with Donald Trump and the campaign to correct some of this misinformation that's been out there and is really everywhere these days?
KEVIN ROBERTS (HERITAGE FOUNDATION): Our respective staffs have been in conversation throughout the campaign on the matters of policy. I suspect very soon the President and his staff and I will sit down and talk through all of this. I'm really gratified by President Trump's most recent statement in which he called out the mischaracterization of the left.
He knows, and his staff knows, there are no hard feelings from us as it relates to their campaign wanting to distance themselves from Project 2025 because the left has spent millions of dollars on it. The other thing, too, Matthew, as you no doubt understand, it's important for there to be some distancing here. The President is running a campaign. They are, by nature, a political activity. Heritage Foundation all of the other groups in Project 2025 are nonpartisan nonprofits, although we're unabashedly conservative. So in a lot of ways this is a reclarification of what always happens since 1980, which is that the presidential campaign runs in its lane, the Republican Party runs in its lane, and those of us who are offering personnel and policy from the outside are offering, are doing what we do which is being focused on those two things.