Project 2025 leader's book release postponed until after election

The new leader of Project 2025 is delaying the publication of his forthcoming book until after November's election, according to multiple reports.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, suggested that he will focus on electing conservatives down the ballot instead of pushing forward his book, "Dawn's Early Light."

“There’s a time for writing, reading, and book tours — and a time to put down the books and go fight like hell to take back our country,” Roberts wrote in a statement to RealClearPolitics. “That’s why I’ve chosen to move my book’s publication and promotion to after the election.”

RealClearPolitics was the first to report on the delay.

The New York Times and The Associated Press (AP) noted that the book was initially supposed to be released in September. The release date is now Nov. 12, according to the publisher's website.

Project 2025 has attracted national attention in recent weeks for its right-wing policy proposals, which Democrats and Vice President Harris’s campaign have now launched efforts against. Roberts announced last week that the leader of Project 2025 would be stepping down from his role and that he would be taking over.

Republicans, including former President Trump, have tried to distance themselves from the policy book in recent weeks as Democrats continued to target them over it. 

The Associated Press reported last week that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) wrote the foreword for Roberts’s forthcoming book. The Republican vice presidential candidate praised the conservative vision laid out by Roberts in his foreword, according to AP.

“Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism,” Vance writes in his foreword. “The Heritage Foundation isn’t some random outpost on Capitol Hill; it is and has been the most influential engine of ideas for Republicans from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump.”

A spokesperson for Vance told AP that the foreword had "nothing to do with Project 2025.”

“Senator Vance has previously said that he has no involvement with it and has plenty of disagreements with what they’re calling for,” Vance spokesperson William Martin wrote in an email to AP. “Only President Trump will set the policy agenda for the next administration.”

The Hill has reached out to the Heritage Foundation and Broadside Books for comment.

The Associated Press contributed.