Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah texted Mark Meadows the chief of staff to former President Trump to demand that Trump try to overturn the 2020 Election. Lee stated this to Meadows: "Sydney Powell is saying that she needs to get in to see the president, but she's being kept away from him," Lee wrote to Meadows on November 7. "Apparently she has a strategy to keep things alive and put several states back in play. Can you help get her in?” Lee then sent Meadows Powell's cell number and her email. On November 9, Lee again pressed Meadows about Powell, calling her a "straight shooter.”