'Tactical error': Group behind Project 2025 admits they failed to rebut 'bogeyman' attacks

The head of the Heritage Foundation said Monday that his group made a "tactical error" during the election cycle by not responding to left-wing attacks about Project 2025.

Kevin Roberts, president of the organization, talked about President-elect Donald Trump's transition plan with Bloomberg Radio on Monday, and touting that the "forgotten ordinary American has won."

"What really won is an emphasis on commonsense solutions to problems," he said.

He said his organization remains "resolute" about the much-maligned Project 2025, which proved so unpopular during the campaign that Trump even distanced himself from the transition plan.

Roberts said his organization knows Trump and his team will make their own transition decisions, but called his organization's plan the "single greatest, biggest scope of personnel and policy work that's ever happened."

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"And we're very proud of it," he insisted.

When asked whether his organization anticipated the backlash, he replied they wanted to "insert substantive policy conversations into the political season."

However, they did not anticipate the left turning it into a "bogeyman" — and "succeeding in doing that."

"We made a tactical error in not responding in the first six weeks to their total mischaracterizations" Roberts acknowledged. "That's on us. But ultimately the mischaracterizations are on the radical left. And that's a tactical lesson that we've learned and we'll never repeat that."

Project 2025 was widely criticized for extreme proposals, including firing federal workers and replacing them with Trump loyalists, as well as dismantling the Department of Education and cutting Social Security and Medicare.

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