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

Before she joined Donald Trump in asking Georgia state officials to find 11,780 votes' in 2020, Mitchell was the feminist flag bearer of the Equal Rights amendment in Oklahoma

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Decades before she joined the now infamous call in which Donald Trump asked Georgia's top election official to find 11,780 votes", conservative election activist Cleta Mitchell was a young Democratic powerhouse legislator in Oklahoma fighting for progressive causes.

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. Such a stunning political pivot is certainly uncommon.