Rep. James Clyburn (D.C.) on Sunday called the conservative policy agenda Project 2025 “Jim Crow 2.0.”
Clyburn said on CNN's “State of the Union” that he is the ninth Black member of Congress from South Carolina, nearly 100 years after the last Black member was elected.
He blamed it on the Jim Crow era, likening Project 2025 to racism in the early 1900s.
While Trump has sought to distance himself from Project 2025, which was drafted by the Heritage Foundation, Democrats have sought to link the two in their campaigns.
“Black men, like everyone else, want to know exactly what they can expect from the Harris administration. I've been very frank with them and contrasted it with what they can expect from the Trump administration. “I let him do that,” Clyburn said. .
“We expect Project 2025 to become a full-fledged policy in his administration. And what will that policy look like? I will explain it on the first night of the national convention. I did, and that's how I've described it ever since,” Clyburn said. “It will be Jim Crow 2.0.”
“If you look at Project 2025, it’s Jim Crow 2.0, and it’s amazing how many people are actually interested in contrasting that,” he said.
