Claim:

US Vice President-elect J.D. Vance wrote the foreword to the book by the leader of Project 2025, the conservative plan for the next Republican presidency.

Evaluation:

The claim that US Vice President J.D. Vance wrote the foreword of an article Project 2025Linked book written by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts first spread on the internet When President-elect Donald Trump chooses Vance, a senator from Ohio, as his Republican vice presidential nominee in July 2024.

It arose in the context of Trump at the time. repeated denials From his connections to Project 2025, a conservative initiative led by the Heritage Foundation to reshape American government in his image:

The claim resurfaced in part after the book’s publisher announced Trump won the general election on November 5, 2024. delayed its publication It will take place immediately after the election. As of this writing, the book was scheduled to be released on November 15, 2024.

It is true that Vance wrote the foreword to this book.

roberts potential customers The Heritage Foundation describes itself as primary organization Behind Project 2025. Book, described By publishing the industry publishing house Publisher’s Lunch as “the book associated with the conservative organisation’s Project 2025 policy agenda”.

of your book original title It was “Early Light of Dawn: Burning Washington to Save America” ​​and was scheduled to be released in September 2024. The first publisher’s statement described its author as the head of Project 2025:

Like reported By Vox, “The book was written and announced before Vance was chosen as Trump’s running mate. But there are some indications that people involved are having second thoughts about it.” In a statement regarding the changed broadcast date, Roberts said:

There is a time for writing, reading, and book tours; There is a time to put down the books and fight like hell to take back our country. … That’s why I chose to postpone the publication and promotion of my book until after the election.

The book is now called “Early Light of Dawn: Taking Back Washington to Save America.” Like described According to its publisher, the themes and ideas in the book align closely with Project 2025’s “mandate for America,” which Snopes describes as a “mandate for America.” previously covered:

Dawn’s Early Light shows a hopeful path for the American people to take back their country. Chapter by chapter, he describes the institutions that conservatives must build, the institutions we must take back, and the institutions that are too corrupt to save: Ivy League colleges, the FBI, the New York Times, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Department of Education, BlackRock, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Democracy Foundation is a few of them. All of these must be eliminated in order to pass on the American way of life to future generations.

Published in The New Republic in July 2024 portions Vance’s foreword from the book’s foreword. The language, at least in this version, reflected Roberts’ call for a “second American Revolution”:

The old conservative movement argued that if you got the government out of the way, natural forces would solve problems. We are no longer in this situation and need to take a different approach.

As Kevin Roberts writes, “When you’re in the safety of the sun, it’s good to take a laissez-faire approach. But when dusk falls and you hear the wolves, you have to circle the cars and load the rifles.”

Now we all realize it’s time to circle the wagons and load the rifles. These ideas are an important weapon in the struggles ahead.

Since Vance has indeed written the foreword to a book written by the leader of Project 2025, we consider the claim to be true.

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