Donald Trump on Saturday made his strongest effort yet to distance himself from Project 2025, a plan authored by his close allies at the Heritage Foundation aimed at reshaping the federal government with staunch MAGA supporters.

Recent reports indicate a significant shift in voter demographics, particularly among women, with growing support for Joe Biden. This backdrop added urgency to Trump’s efforts to downplay any ties to Project 2025.

Speaking at a rally in Michigan, Trump vehemently denied any involvement with the initiative.

“I am not an extremist,” Trump asserted, addressing supporters. “I’m a person with great common sense; I’m not an extremist at all,” Trump said at the first rally since the shooting event.

He took aim at Project 2025, a right-wing proposal he claims to have little knowledge of despite its ties to several former members of his administration.

“Like some on the right, the severe right, came up with this Project 2025 and I don’t even know – some of them I know who they are – but they are very, very conservative,” Trump said. “Just like you have, they are sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left and you have the radical right.”

He emphasized his ignorance of the details: “I don’t know what the hell it is. I don’t want to know anything about it.”

Trump received applause from the crowd when he asserted the claims are just misinformation and disinformation. He said he doesn’t know “what the hell it is.”

“They are extreme. They are seriously extreme, but I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said. “I don’t want to know anything about it. But what they do is misinformation and disinformation.”

Trump then claimed that he “took a bullet for democracy” last week, prompting applause from the crowd.

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