She was a firebrand Democrat. Now, Cleta Mitchell is a rising star of Republican election denialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Around that time, she told the AP that she and Trump were in contact "fairly frequently".
46% : How Mitchell - who advised Trump during his 2016 campaign and who founded the national Election Integrity Network, a group working to get grassroots conservatives to monitor their polls and protect the country from voter fraud - ended up on that phone call, is still confounding for those who knew her earlier in her career.
40% : It's unclear when Trump brought her back into his orbit, but the January 6 commission revealed the critical role she played in trying to stop Georgia from certifying the 2020 election.
39% : Despite a grand jury's recommendation that she be charged, the sweeping indictment in Fulton county against Trump and 18 of his allies and co-conspirators did not include Mitchell, and she has not been charged with a crime related to the effort to steal the 2020 election.
36% : The legislation is unlikely to be successful this year, but Republicans could take control of both chambers of Congress next year and, given that Trump has refused to commit to accept the results of the 2024 election if he loses, could push it as part of an anti-voting agenda.
34% : Regardless of why that shift happened, it led to one of the most prominent figures on the right pushing the narrative that voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Trump and could do it again this year.
34% : Former friends and colleagues were shocked to hear her voice on the infamous call in which Trump tried to convince Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, to help him steal the election.
18% : In 2011, Trump hired Mitchell to represent him against accusations that he violated federal campaign finance laws.

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