When former President Donald Trump arrives in Doral, Florida, for a Tuesday evening rally, Democrats will have a surprise waiting for him: a new front in the party’s messaging tying him to the controversial Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump term drafted by conservative allies and former administration officials. The Democratic National Committee has purchased space on several billboards in Doral explicitly tying Trump to Project 2025, The New Republic has learned.

Also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, the document proposes firing thousands of government employees, eliminating the Department of Education, severely restricting abortion access, dismantling federal protections for LGBTQ individuals, granting the president greater control over the Justice Department, and limiting efforts to combat climate change.

While Trump has attempted, with limited success, to distance himself from Project 2025, Democrats have increasingly seized on the 900-page laundry list of policy items as an ominous harbinger of what a second Trump term would look like. The Doral billboards constitute the DNC’s first paid media campaign explicitly targeting Project 2025, though it is not clear how much the party spent.

The billboards paint the conservative wish list in ominous terms, calling it “Trump’s........

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