Book With Project 2025 Ties and JD Vance Foreword Is Delayed Until After Election

The publication of a book written by Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the group that has coordinated Project 2025, and featuring a foreword by Senator JD Vance, has been delayed until after the presidential election.

The book, “Dawn’s Early Light,” was scheduled to be published in September but will now be released in November. The delay was reported earlier by RealClearPolitics.

Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint prepared for the next Republican president, has become a target of Democratic attacks. The project’s director recently stepped down after the effort drew criticism from former President Donald J. Trump, whose attempts to distance himself from the project became more difficult after he selected Mr. Vance as his running mate.

“In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon,” Mr. Vance wrote in the book’s foreword, which was published online by The New Republic.

Mr. Roberts is the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that was extraordinarily influential during the Trump presidency. Some of the far-reaching policy proposals outlined in the nearly 900 pages of Project 2025 include criminalizing pornography, disbanding the federal Department of Education, and ending a variety of programs designed to mitigate climate change.

Mr. Roberts drew criticism recently for saying the country was in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that would “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

A Heritage Foundation spokeswoman confirmed the delay of the book and provided a statement from Roberts, who said, “There’s a time for writing, reading and book tours, and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country.”