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Summarize this content to 1000 words Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance said it was “time to circle the wagons and load the muskets,” in a forward to a book penned by Project 2025’s leader, according to a report.The New Republic obtained the forward to “Dawn’s Early Light,” the book written by the Heritage Foundation leader Kevin Roberts, where Vance claims “explores many of the themes I’ve focused on in my own work.””Never before has a figure with Roberts’s depth and stature within the American Right tried to articulate a genuinely new future for conservatism. 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,” Vance wrote in the forward, according to the report published Tuesday.Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, at an interview during the Republican National Convention (RNC) near the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesVance claims “Roberts sees a conservatism that is focused on the family,” and “cultural norms and attitudes matter.”The senator ended his forward with an analogy about a garden that “needs to be recultivated.”Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance speaks during a campaign event, July 30, 2024, in Henderson, Nev.Ellen Schmidt/AP”As Kevin Roberts writes, ‘It’s fine to take a laissez-faire approach when you are in the safety of the sunshine. But when the twilight descends and you hear the wolves, you’ve got to circle the wagons and load the muskets,'” Vance wrote, according to the report. “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”-ABC News’ Soo Rin Kim

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