A new political ad claims the Republican party wants to put a nationwide ban on pornography.
The Progress Action Fund, which supports Democratic candidates, released a new ad addressing Project 2025's proposed ban on porn.
The ad shows a young man enjoying some alone time in his bedroom, when he's interrupted by an older man who tells him he's breaking the law.
"I'm your Republican congressman. Now that we're in charge, we're banning porn nationwide," he says as he snatches the young man's phone.
"You can't tell me what to do! Get out of my bedroom," the man demands.
"I won the last election, so it's my decision," the lawmaker replies.
Of the many proposals in Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda for the next Republican presidency, one of them includes a ban on pornography. Project 2025 calls porn "as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime."
"Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned," the document says. "Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."
The Progress Action Fund says it is running the $2.5 million "Republicans Rubbing You The Wrong Way" ad campaign "to defeat Republicans in swing districts," including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and North Carolina.
"The Republican Party is led by weird old men who are committed to invading our bedrooms," Joe Jacobson, Founder of Progress Action Fund, said in a statement. "As a 30-year-old guy myself, the GOP's insistence on legislating our personal lives and decisions is disturbing and unacceptable. That is why we're working to ensure everyone knows that the G.O.P really stands for 'Grand Old Perverts.'"
Created by people closely allied with former President Donald Trump's campaign and funded by the influential Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 outlines a comprehensive plan for a government-in-waiting that aims to implement a vision aligned with Trump-era conservatism and strengthen the power of the White House.
Although crafted by former members of his administration and said to be a blueprint for his second term, Trump has repeatedly tried to distance himself from Project 2025, saying some of its ideas are "absolutely ridiculous and abysmal," and that it goes "way too far." The plan was written by the Heritage Foundation with input from more than 100 different conservative groups.
"President Trump's campaign has been very clear for over a year that Project 2025 had nothing to do with the campaign, did not speak for the campaign, and should not be associated with the campaign or the President in any way," the Trump campaign said in a July statement.