Trump Adviser Cleta Mitchell Has Been Prepping For ‘Hand-To-Hand Combat’ Ahead Of Midterms
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Trump Adviser Cleta Mitchell Has Been Prepping For ‘Hand-To-Hand Combat’ Ahead Of Midterms
Emine Yücel 3-3 minutes 11/3/2022
Earlier this year, Cleta Mitchell — the longtime right-wing election lawyer and former legal advisor to Donald Trump — was recorded outlining her vision for Election Day: an opportunity for “hand-to-hand combat with the Left,” according to recordings obtained by ABC News .
In the months since Mitchell joined Trump on that now-infamous call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Mitchell has taken her Big Lie efforts to the streets, leading a movement to recruit fellow conspiracy theorists to become poll workers in the upcoming midterm elections.
The crusade birthed out of her work in 2020 to help spread Trump’s lies of a stolen election. Along with the Raffensperger call, Mitchell was a key figure in spreading the conspiracy theory that election workers in Fulton County, Georgia “made everybody leave” a counting room on election night in order to count thousands of illegal ballots.
The two new recordings — obtained by ABC News and described as meetings with local election groups — give us a closer look at just what exactly Mitchell’s been up to in her cross-country recruitment effort, revealing some of the strategies put in motion by Mitchell and her Trump-funded group the Election Integrity Network.
“My sole focus for the last year and a half has been how we as conservatives could build an infrastructure to do hand-to-hand combat with the Left starting at the local level,” Mitchell reportedly said on a September Zoom call.
The Election Integrity Network describes itself as a “coalition of conservative leaders, organizations, public officials and citizens dedicated to securing the legality of every American vote,” and is a project of the conservative organization Conservative Partnership Institute. In 2021, Trump’s PAC donated $1 million to the CPI — that’s one of its largest donations to date.
“We’ve got a big challenge with the elections coming up,” Mitchell said in the recording. “But if we can keep them from stealing it, I think we have a good chance to win.”
The meetings, which took place in August and September, were attended by Mitchell, members of various grassroots organizations and at least one elected state representative, according to ABC News.
On one of the calls, Mitchell also addressed criticism that her group is “creating a hostile environment.”
“The Left is so undone about our engagement as observers and poll workers and challengers and election judges and all those roles, they started a year ago this narrative,” she said.
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Cleta Mitchell, who took part in the infamous "find me 11,000 votes" votes phone call, wants to steal your election.
There is far too much apathy in this country. I'm afraid really bad things are on the way.
Lol. You believe this means she's preparing to literally fight the left in hand to hand combat?
Did you think Obama was planning to literally kill Mitt Romney when the campaign plan for 2012 was to "kill Romney?"
Every time I think the left can't get more hysterical, they prove me wrong. Biden should have gone after Talking Point Memo if he was serious about his speech yesterday,
Your comments are becoming more and more irrelevant every day. At least the election is coming and afterwards you may be able to regroup yourself.
There is not a single word in the Talking Points Memo article which states or suggests they took the "hand to hand combat" line literally.
Instead of addressing the actual issue , which is that someone who was a leading participant in Trumps effort to steal the 2020 election is now organizing efforts to do the same in 2022, you are off on a tangent.
She is organizing "thousands" of people to harrass election workers and disrupt and cause chaos in the election. God help us and make her unsuccessful.
Apparently she does, since she's the one recorded as saying it.
Course not, but from the sounds of it, she might have.
Then what do you think of the right, that is actually making the claim you are attributing to the left? Hmmm?
Do you understand the difference between literal and figurative phrases?
Work that out, and you will much better off for it.
Do you? Go ahead and provide your evidence that her statement is one or the other.
Cleta Mitchells exact words, as found in a recording of her voice. So she said it.
What she is saying here is that the only way the Democrats can win is if they steal the election.
Where is her evidence? The evidence she offered in 2020 was laughed out of court and out of the public square. She was on the Raffensberger phone call that Trump may be indicted for. What the hell is this person doing involved in any way in upcoming elections?
No she isn't. Read your quote again and focus on the meaning of the words "good chance".
lol. Good chance could mean a 100% chance. Are you a mindreader?
She is clearly saying that the Democrats will try and steal the election. Where is the evidence? She wants to have her poll watchers harass election workers. Who the fuck is she?
I'd ask you for your evidence but I dont believe in hopeless causes.
Good chance could mean a 100% chance.
No, it doesn't. Good chance means there is still is a chance of losing. An example of what you are claiming is someone saying something along these lines:
"The only way I'll lose is through chicanery at the polling place."
Guess who said that?
I thought hand to hand combat was a euphemism for masturbation. That actually may be accurate though after reading the article. Recruiting people that believe the Earth is flat to count votes is troubling.