With the SAVE America Act before the Senate, a bill that could radically transform elections, Cleta Mitchell is approaching the apex of her influence. At the same time, the “election integrity” movement that she has often spearheaded, fueled by years of conspiracy theories about widespread non-citizen voting, may be about to turn on its own base: conservative voters.
Mitchell initially rose to prominence as a prominent denier of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, participating in efforts to overturn the results and acting as one of the attorneys who helped assemble the Republican legal strategy in their failed attempt to help Trump cling to power.
