Kamala Harris Courts Gen Z With Project 2025 Warning

Kamala Harris Slams Project 2025: 'We Are Not Going Back'

By Jasmine Laws
Live News Reporter
Published Jul 29, 2024 

Kamala Harris has issued a stark warning to young voters, saying she needs their support to help her defeat Donald Trump.

Speaking to Voters of Tomorrow, a movement promoting the political engagement of Gen Z, Harris said Trump has "an extreme and divisive agenda for a second term."

She went on to talk about Project 2025, a plan developed by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation to make significant changes to the backbone of the U.S. federal government if Trump wins the 2024 election.

Its policies include overhauling federal bureaucracy, reversing many of the Biden administration's climate policies, rolling back abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, and changes to education standards, including the Head Start early education program.

"There is so much at stake this November, our most fundamental freedoms," Harris said in the video.
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a campaign event in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 27. A video was released on Saturday of Harris talking about the importance of the young generation's votes in... More Stephanie Scarbrough/AP

Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, even though some of his policy advisers appear to be involved, according to Reuters. Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, told Newsweek that Harris was "clearly misinformed" as "President Trump has said repeatedly he has nothing to do with Project 2025."

Newsweek has approached Harris for comment.

The video was posted on July 27 on the Voters of Tomorrow X account, with the caption, "Vice President @KamalaHarris knows she must earn our generation's votes, and that is exactly what she will do." It has received 25,000 views.

In the clip, Harris said, "Because young voters showed up, we have made progress, historic progress, on everything from gun violence prevention to taking on the climate crisis." She added that in November, "We will win again and we need your support. In this election, we know that young voters will be key and we know that your vote cannot be taken for granted. It must be earned, and that is exactly what we will do."

The video was posted ahead of Trump's rally in Minnesota, where the former president spoke to around 8,000 people at St. Cloud State University. In his speech, he targeted Harris with fresh verbal attacks, saying she would be "worse than Biden" if elected. Trump also continued to attack his former opponent, Joe Biden, before returning his criticisms to Harris.

Harris' presidential campaign has been gaining momentum since Biden withdrew from the election on July 21, with young voters in particular appearing receptive to her candidacy.

A poll by Axios/Generation Lab found that of voters between the ages of 18-34, 60 percent favored Harris over Trump.

On Sunday, an ABC News/Ipsos survey of 1,200 adults showed that support for Harris is continuing to grow, with an eight-point increase in her approval rating from 35 percent to 43 percent since Biden ended his 2024 campaign.