Project 2025 Chief To Spend $1M On Ads Threatening Republican Senators Who Don’t Fall In Line On Hegseth

The Associated Press reports:

The think tank behind Project 2025, the conservative blueprint linked to President-elect Donald Trump, is launching an effort to back Trump’s imperiled selection for secretary of defense in its latest attempt to wield influence in the incoming Republican administration. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators unwilling to back Pete Hegseth.

“It’ll be messaging right now with their constituents about how out of step they are with the Trump agenda,” Roberts said in an interview, who argued that criticism of Hegseth was being driven by “the establishment.” Roberts spoke to The Associated Press during an event at Mar-a-Lago. Roberts introduced himself on Thursday as someone from Project 2025 and the Mar-A-Lago crowd laughed.

Read the full article. Roberts, who had threatened violence if Trump did not win, appeared here earlier this week when he called for seizing the endowments of public and private universities if they don’t hew to Trump’s anti-diversity edicts and end the “woke mind virus.”

An architect of Project 2025 is pressuring Republican senators to confirm Pete Hegseth

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— Associated Press 🤖 (@asssociatedpress.bsky.social) December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM