Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign falsely claimed in a 2021 video that Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) supported Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation proposal that Democrats used to try to hold former President Donald Trump accountable.
ClaimX’s Kamala HQ account shared a clip of Vance in an interview purporting to support Project 2025, though he never mentions the topic in the clip.
J.D. Vance supports Project 2025. “You have to be really ruthless when it comes to using power. I don’t think you can compromise. Unless you defeat them in some way, you’re going to keep losing.” pic.twitter.com/2sVHp4i1ek
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 27, 2024
“J.D. Vance supports Project 2025,” the account said, before going on to quote him as saying, “We need to be really ruthless when it comes to using power… I don’t think we can compromise… We’re going to keep losing unless we defeat them somehow.”
verdictFalse. The Harris campaign claims Vance supports Project 2025 in this 2021 video, but the Heritage Foundation didn’t publicly announce the proposal until years later, according to its website. Project 2025 Website The video shows that the proposal wasn’t announced until early 2023, more than a year after Vance was recorded on video.
“Nowhere in this video does he endorse Project 2025. This interview was from May 18, 2021, years before Project 2025 even existed. Why is the Kamala campaign so desperate to lie about J.D. Vance?” said Andrew Surabian, a Republican strategist who has advised the Trump campaign and Vance.
Nowhere in this video does he endorse Project 2025. This interview was on May 18, 2021, years before Project 2025 even existed. Why is Kamala’s camp so desperate to lie? translator?
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—Andrew Surabean (@Surabees) July 27, 2024
Project 2025 has become the kind of villain Democrats are trying to foist on Trump, even though he has never supported it. Paul Dans, director of the Heritage Foundation, said Project 2025 has been the subject of a misinformation campaign.
“For the last 100 years, progressives have built the administrative state,” Dans told attendees at the Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest. “It’s actually anti-democratic at work.”
