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06/09/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/09/2024 05:35

Tom Kean Jr.’s Terrible Town Hall

New Jerseyans grill Kean Jr. about his support for Donald Trump and Project 2025

This week, vulnerable New Jersey Republican Tom Kean Jr. decided to come out of his hidey-hole only to once again stumble over an answer when voters hammered him for endorsing Donald Trump and his dangerous Project 2025 agenda.

From the townhall :

Question: You have endorsed Trump, does that mean you have endorsed Project 2025 and things like its cuts to Medicare?

Kean Jr.: I have never read Project 2025…

Question: You never read it?

Kean Jr.: No

Question: This is the manifesto of the candidate you support that is running for president, and you're not interested in the least?

Kean Jr.: As I said, my concerns are the concerns of the people in the district.

This isn't the first time Kean Jr. has failed to distance himself from Project 2025's extremism. While the authors of the far-right agenda called the harmful Dobbs decision "just the beginning," Kean Jr. similarly promised he would fight "every step of the way to protect the unborn from egregious abortion laws." Since then, he's voted for bills which chip away at women's fundamental reproductive freedoms and punish doctors who provide abortions.

DCCC Spokesperson Aidan Johnson:
"New Jerseyans know that if re-elected, Tom Kean Jr. will continue to push through the same anti-abortion, anti-freedom legislation that is spelled out in the extreme Project 2025 manifesto - and that's why they'll reject him at the ballot box this November.