Election Day 2024: all of the information

For the higher a part of this 12 months, Challenge 2025 has been a catchall amongst Democrats for the menace former President Donald Trump poses to American society. The greater than 900-page Mandate for Management, crafted by conservative assume tank the Heritage Basis, is a sprawling and sometimes contradictory mixture of concepts from greater than 100 organizations. It’s tied collectively not by unified coverage predictions however by a collection of preoccupations: China; “wokeness”; local weather denialism; and a dedication to gutting or abolishing federal businesses. It consists of plans that might remake America’s method to know-how, however like many issues within the doc, its authors can’t precisely agree on how.

Trump has tried to distance himself from the coverage plan, nevertheless it’s tied to him by quite a few threads. His working mate, JD Vance, is mates with Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Basis, and Vance even wrote the introduction to Roberts’ forthcoming guide, Daybreak’s Early Gentle. (The guide’s publication, initially slated for September, was postponed until after the election.) And a few of Challenge 2025’s chapters have been written by Trump’s personal former administration officers, together with FCC commissioner Brendan Carr and Division of Homeland Safety official Ken Cuccinelli.