Republican says Harris should drop Project 2025 ads – to protect Trump’s safety

A Republican congressman has called on Kamala Harris to drop her Project 2025 ads following the second apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump’s life, claiming they incite violence and hatred towards the former president.

Byron Donalds, US representative for Florida’s 19th congressional district, appeared on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show to claim that Democrats deliberately inciting violence against the Republican candidate, rather than simply campaigning against his policies. An accusation that has been repeatedly denied by Democrats.

Donalds said Harris’ message condemning thealleged assassination attempt and saying she was, “thankful that former President Trump is safe" was not enough of an acknowledgment.

“What she should do is go through all the ad campaigns that they are running in the battleground states,” Donalds told The Ingraham Angle’s host. “Anything that references being destructive of democracy and all the other tropes and the lies, Project 2025—all that stuff, it should come down.”

A Secret Service agent fired their weapon on Sunday afternoon after spotting a rifle poking through a fence on Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, while Mr Trump was on the course. After initially fleeing the scene, the suspect of the alleged assassination attempt was detained by police and identified as Ryan Wesley Routh.

Project 2025 is the blueprint, drawn up by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, for what a second Trump administration would look like. It has been derided by Democrats.

Donalds also urged the Harris campaign to “stick to the facts” — something his own presidential and vice presidential candidates seem unable to do considering the grossly racist rumor the