No. of Recommendations: 12
"While tying Trump and Vance to Project 2025 may not be the best approach against them, it's still one that shouldn't be abandoned."In all politics is local........
Here in Nevada, one of the biggest issues statewide is Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nucle...It is supposed to be the repository for all long term nuclear waste in the U.S. Obviously all of the utilities around the country want it because right now they are storing waste onsite at nuclear reactors. Here is Nevada though it is extremely unpopular. Unsurprisingly, people don't like having highly radioactive nuclear waste buried in their back yard (not to mention shipments of it regularly travelling down their highways). So when Harry Reid was alive and still a Senator, he got funding killed for the Repository.
Every Republican Senate candidate from Nevada for the last 15 years has gotten themselves in trouble over it. The candidates take big donations from energy companies so they come out in favor of Yucca. They talk about all of the jobs it will create, etc. Then there is huge public backlash against the candidates. The Republican Senate candidate then suddenly changes their tune and is somewhat against Yucca but it is too late. It is probably the #1 reason a Republican has not won a Senate seat in Nevada the past few elections. That has played out in the upcoming Nevada Senate race as well. The Republican gave a nice speech about bringing jobs to Nevada by restarting Yucca. He got hammered for it and has since changed his tune and come out against it.
Anyway, Donald Trump once came out in support of restarting Yucca. Then when he realized he needed to win Nevada, he came out against it. But then later he was quoted speaking to energy company CEOs about restarting it. It is the typical Trump two step, he will tell whomever he is talking to whatever they want to hear despite telling someone else the opposite just a while ago.
So is Trump for or against restarting Yucca? Who knows. Probably depends on who is energy secretary is and who he talked to most recently.
But guess who is for restarting Yucca? Yep. Project 2025 contains a section about restarting it.
If Biden was smart, he would be blanketing the Nevada airwaves with ads linking Trump to Project 2025 and wanting to restart Yucca Mountain. It is a winning issue in Nevada. It is deeply unpopular and a high priority for most voters.
