
Cardinal & Pine political correspondent Michael McElroy breaks down what Project 2025 and Trump's re-election would mean for NC.
What would a second Trump administration look like? We don’t have to guess: He has told us very clearly. Check out Project 2025.
Project 2025 is a 900-page document written by far-right groups that lays out a detailed blueprint for how Trump could replace non-partisan scientists with untrained political loyalists and flood the entirety of the federal government with far-right ideology.
The plan is so all-encompassing that there are a million ways it would be a direct detriment to North Carolina, but Michael McElroy, Cardinal & Pine’s political correspondent, breaks down two big ones: Abortion rights and climate change.
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