Biden campaign tries to use Trump’s second-term blueprint against him as debate looms

With just hours to go until President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump meet for their first debate in four years, Biden’s campaign is looking to use the massive amounts of attention being lavished on the rhetorical prizefightto remind voters of Trumpworld’s plan to reshape government in the felonious ex-president’s image should he be returned to the White House next year.

The Biden campaign is rolling out a seven-figure paid digital and print-media campaign, which includes homepage takeovers at Buzzfeed, USA Today, CNN, El Tiempo Latino, Telemundo, theGrio, and theAtlanta Journal Constitution to highlight what they describe as “the dangers of electing Trump to a second term.”

The president’s campaign is also launching a new website that takes aim at Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump term that has been put forth by the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank.

As The Independent has reported, the plan would allow Trump to carry out a blitzkrieg of firings across federal agencies, potentially allowing an army of loyalists to weaponize the government against his rivals. It also includes executive actions to effectively ban abortion nationwide and threaten access to birth control under a centuries-old law called the Comstock Act, restrict press freedoms, deploy troops in Democratic-run cities and crush civil rights protests with violence.

Sarafina Chitika, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement that Project 2024 “spells out” how Trump would “do everything he can to rip away Americans’ freedoms, undermine our democracy, and amass power for himself while weaponizing the government to get revenge on his opponents” in a second term.

At the same time, Biden campaign aides and confidantes to