CNN —
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday will call on his party to turn away from what he describes as a growing threat of populism led by his former White House boss Donald Trump and “his populist followers and imitators.”
In a speech to be delivered at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, Pence is expected to say that “Republican voters face a choice” between conservative principles and the rising populist movement within the party, according to prepared remarks.
In his sharpest language to date against the Trump wing of the GOP, Pence is poised to say that the populists