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Republicans on Capitol Hill are responding positively to a new nonprofit organization trying to build conservative support for changes in the campaign finance system, the group’s leader said.

The group is getting “a better reaction than we thought we would” from Republican lawmakers despite a recent history of sharp partisan division over campaign finance issues, John Pudner, the executive director or Take Back Our Republic, said during a July 24 panel discussion.

Pudner is a political consultant who helped Rep. Dave Brat win a stunning victory in a Republican primary in Virginia last year over former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. He spoke on a panel of campaign finance experts assembled by the nonprofit Campaign Finance Institute, a group that has long favored strong regulation of money in politics.

Pudner helped launch the Auburn, Ala.-based Take Back Our Republic early this year and has been working to establish dozens of state offices for the group.