Trump drifts further from GOP orthodoxy in bid to beat Harris - Washington Examiner

Donald Trump has made a rhetorical shift in favor of describing his politics as “common sense’s” In March , he explicitly said he is “not conservative” and has taken that label to describe the GOP as a whole.

Trump largely governed as a conservative during his four years in the White House .

But with the party more firmly in his control, he is testing those limits again.

Democrats are relying on a coalition of “old guard” Republicans turned off by Trump ’s rhetoric and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

But the election could hinge on how convincingly each pivot to the opposing side negates the opposing views of the GOP .

Trump has disavowed 2025 , a conservative policy agenda that Democrats have called extreme.

“Like some on the Right, severe Right, came up with this Project ’25, I don’t even know, some of them I know who they are, but they’re very, very conservative,” Trump said in July . “They’re sort of the opposite of the radical Left.” Meanwhile, he has begun to mock Harris as a “copycat” for her rebrand, quipping she should wear a “ MAGA ” hat for the policy positions she has adopted since launching her run for president..