The More Americans Learn About Project 2025, The More They Hate It: Poll

New polling has suggested that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it, Julia Conley of Common Dreams reported for Raw Story.

Project 2025 calls for the weakening and eradication of federal agencies and the consolidation of power with the president, the elimination of job protections for thousands of federal employees, and the withdrawal of mifepristone—a pill used in a majority of abortions in the US—from the market. I Photo: The Heritage Foundation Wikimedia Commons

Over the past month, more voters have learned more about the 922-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it's become more widely known.

Progressive polling firm Navigator Research found in a survey conducted between July 11-14 that 54% of Americans were familiar with Project 2025, which calls for the weakening and eradication of federal agencies and the consolidation of power with the president, the elimination of job protections for thousands of federal employees, and the withdrawal of mifepristone—a pill used in a majority of abortions in the US—from the market.

That's an increase of 25 percentage points from Navigator's poll on Project 2025 just one month ago, said the firm. Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views—a 24-point increase since June.

Project 2025 appears to especially be galvanizing Democratic voters, 71% of whom said they were aware of the document.

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats said they had unfavorable views of Project 2025, and 62% said their opinion was "very unfavorable."

Nearly two-thirds of independent voters said they still didn't know enough about the project to have an opinion, but 28% of independent respondents said they had an unfavorable view of the agenda.

As Common Dreams reported earlier this month, another poll by Navigator Research showed that 63% of Americans believed Project 2025 described Trump's vision and plans even as he claimed he "knew nothing" about the agenda and didn't know who was behind it.