Pence group announces $20 million effort to fight GOP's 'drift toward populism'

Former Vice President Mike Pence's political advocacy group plans to invest $20 million this year to shape the conservative agenda, an effort to directly counter what Pence had previously described as populism "unmoored to conservative principles." Advancing American Freedom, which Pence launched in 2021, announced Wednesday the creation of the American Solutions Project, a three-prong effort to push more traditional conservative policy priorities during an election year likely to be dominated by former President Trump. "Our nation was founded on conservative principles that have stood the test of time. The Constitution and this great American experiment must not be swayed…