Trump distances himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025: AFPI emerges as a bet on influence groups that profess a pragmatic model of relations with China

In the late summer of 2024, Trump and his inner circle made a noticeable effort to distance themselves from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank and its Project 2025 initiative.

Project 2025 aims to give the next Republican administration the power to radically restructure the executive branch, including massive dismissals of senior and mid-level officials without congressional approval, and to reorient American institutions to a conservative agenda.

As the Democrats successfully presented the project in the media as one that was designed specifically for Trump to undermine American democracy, this narrative began to harm Trump’s position in the election.

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