{"id":35199,"date":"2024-07-28T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=35199"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:56:17","slug":"us-public-rapidly-sours-on-project-2025-as-awareness-grows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/us-public-rapidly-sours-on-project-2025-as-awareness-grows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US Public Rapidly Sours on Project 2025 as Awareness Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\""Expose<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Government watchdog Accountable.US launches its “Expose Project 2025” campaign on the streets of Washington on March 1, 2024 in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Paul Morigi\/Getty Images for Accountable.US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jul 23, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140<\/a> of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past month, though, a growing number of voters have learned more about the 900-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation\u2014and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it’s become more widely known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressive polling firm Navigator Research found in a survey <\/a>conducted between July 11-14 that 54% of Americans were familiar with Project 2025, which calls for the weakening and eradication of federal agencies and the consolidation of power with the president, the elimination of job protections of thousands of federal employees, and the withdrawal of mifepristone\u2014a pill used in a majority of abortions in the U.S.\u2014from the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s an increase of 25 percentage points from Navigator’s poll on Project 2025 just one month ago, said the firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views\u2014a 24-point increase since June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025 appears to especially be galvanizing Democratic voters, 71% of whom said they were aware of the document. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats said they had unfavorable views of Project 2025, and 62% said their opinion was “very unfavorable.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly two-thirds of independent voters said they still didn’t know enough about the project to have an opinion, but 28% of independent respondents said they had an unfavorable view of the agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, said Navigator, “the recent upsurge in conversations and news coverage about the plan” since June has resulted in a greater number of Americans having negative views of Project 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, a vast majority of Americans weren\u2019t aware of Project 2025 (71% didn\u2019t know about it).

Since the recent upsurge in conversations and news coverage about the plan, favorability has only increased by 1 point while unfavorability has more than doubled (from 19% to 43%).<\/p>— Navigator Research (@NavigatorSurvey) July 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>