(NewsNation) — Unfounded claims of widespread election fraud advanced by former President Donald Trump and his allies have inspired a groundswell of conservative activists to attempt oversight of the 2022 midterms.
In a recent interview on former White House strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast, prominent GOP attorney and conservative activist Cleta Mitchell said her organization has trained, and intends to deploy, more than 20,000 people to monitor the upcoming midterm elections across the country.
Mitchell, who assisted the former president in his failed effort to overturn the 2020 election, pushed back against critics of the training who she said accused her of “destroying democracy.”
“We have people trained in the law so that they can then observe and document and report when things are not being conducted according to the law,” Mitchell said. “The political left, she added, “are totally traumatized by the fact that we are going to be watching.”
Later in the interview, Mitchell put out a call to action, asking for volunteers to help oversee elections in battleground areas including Maricopa County, Arizona and DeKalb County, Georgia.
Both political parties have long employed poll watchers, but the tactics displayed in recent months suggest the heightened level of scrutiny is becoming increasingly disruptive.
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