In the days and weeks following the 2020 election the Trump campaign has been filing lawsuits in battleground states where the race has been extremely close. Former NJ Governor and longtime ally of Donald Trump, Chris Christie said this week, "...the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment." He continued, "the allege fraud outside the courtroom but when they go inside the courtroom they don't plead fraud and they don't argue fraud." Guest: Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), author...

It's getting real now. From the top down and from the bottom up, the consequences of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party continuing to defy reality are making themselves evident. Trump firing a top Homeland Security official for contradicting his unfounded claims about the election, while local Republican officials in Michigan initially refused to certify results -- these mark new lows that threaten to shake the foundations of the electoral process. Guest: Pennsylvania Lt. Gov....

Jim Gray has won twelve National Sports Emmy Awards, interviewing the greatest of all time athletes from Muhammad Ali to Tom Brady. He has also interviewed nine US Presidents from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, and played golf with most of them. He recently wrote "Talking with GOATS," sharing many behind-the-scenes anecdotes about his famous conversations.  Guest: Jim Gray, sportscaster and author

To rekindle an infamous discussion, taking President Donald Trump literally at this precarious moment means the president believes the election was rigged against him; that he believes he received more lawful votes than his opponent; that he believes the vote count in a series of battleground states is flawed and corrupt; and that there are election officials and state and federal judges that are ready to deliver him a second term. Taking him seriously at this moment ... might be even...

After nearly 50 years in public life and three tries for the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in a victory delayed by vote counts and complicated by potential legal challenges. ABC News projects it was Pennsylvania that gave him the electoral votes he needed, and Biden, who was born in Scranton, has said his early life there has always been "a touchstone -- where I learned my values."

A win isn't the same as a mandate. Waiting for a win is messier -- especially in volatile times. On the day after the day after Election Day, the math and the map clearly favor former Vice President Joe Biden, though he's not there yet.

President Trump led Wisconsin and Michigan for much of last night. But as mail votes are counted, vote totals there now show Joe Biden with the lead. However, Biden has a long way to go in Georgia and all-important Pennsylvania. And President Trump is looking to pull off a similar comeback in Arizona.  Guests: Brad Mielke of ABC's Start Here and MaryAlice Parks, ABC News Deputy Political Director  

Election Day arrives as a referendum on the man who has dominated the national conversation for four-plus years: President Donald J. Trump. We don't know when or how it will end. Former Vice President Joe Biden could clinch states early and start to roll; the night or early morning could bring a narrow but decisive victory for either Biden or Trump; or it could last a long while, with a tense nation forced to wait out legal fights and presidential tweetstorms over a period of days and...

Ohio's Secretary of State, Frank LaRose joins to talk about the voting, tabulation and reporting processes for his state. LaRose also discusses election security and COVID safety measures at polling sites in Ohio.

"Everyone's paying attention and everyone's getting out there to vote." With just six days to go before Election Day, that's what Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, tells Powerhouse Politics about his state's absentee and early in-person voting. Guest: Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger

The second and final debate was a study in contrasts from the first. One thing that didn't change, though, was President Donald Trump's attempts to make former Vice President Joe Biden out as a corrupt and incompetent extremist. The plays that worked against Hillary Clinton, and may have worked against Bernie Sanders, have shown few signs of effectiveness against Biden. Biden sought to bring the conversation back to bigger issues and called Trump "confused": "He thinks he's running against...

"He wants to listen to Dr. Fauci," President Donald Trump told a crowd in Arizona Monday afternoon, the mention of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s name drawing boos from the crowd. It takes head-spinning logic to cast Trump's feud with Fauci as a winning campaign message for an incumbent who is down in the polls. The campaign is continuing to air ads that feature Fauci -- out of context -- appearing to applaud the president's decisions on COVID-19, even while Trump calls him a "disaster" and his fellow...

With only 20 days until the election, President Trump is back out on the campaign trail and says he's feeling ”so powerful.” Meanwhile, this week’s hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett are odd in at least one respect: They appear unlikely to influence the decision of a single senator when it comes time to vote on her confirmation for the Supreme Court.  Guest: The Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens

It's been eight short but incredibly long days since the first presidential debate. Since then, President Donald Trump has struggled to denounce white supremacism; refused to commit to accepting the results of the election; spread falsehoods about the voting process; been diagnosed with COVID-19, amid a full-fledged Washington outbreak; choreographed a triumphant return to the White House to urge the nation not to let the pandemic "dominate"; pulled the plug on further coronavirus relief...

The man a rival once warned would be a "chaos president" got a chaotic debate -- a wildly disjoined affair where both candidates insulted more than they explained. But almost as a throwaway topic, late in the debate, a discussion about election integrity drew critically important messaging out of the noise of this year's first presidential debate of the general election. Guests: David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski, authors of the new book, Trump: America First: The President Succeeds Against...

A tale of two campaigns is emerging ahead of the first face-to-face meeting in the general election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night on the presidential debate stage. ABC's Martha Raddatz offers her unique perspective, having been the only person to have moderated past debates with both of these candidates. Plus, FiveThirtyEight’s Galen Druke on whether the debates have a real impact on polling or at the ballot box.  Guests: ABC's Martha...

There are about 40 days to go until Election Day, and this week the United States reached a grim milestone as the number of Americans who have died from coronavirus tops 200,000. Meanwhile, President Trump is telling his supporters that the virus affects "virtually nobody" as he continues to hold campaign events with no social distancing and very few masks. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) joins the discussion as the Republicans vow to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court...

ABC News' Tuesday night town hall with President Donald Trump showed a few different sides of the president, and found him comparing his own leadership during the coronavirus pandemic to that of Winston Churchill's leadership during World War II. The forum also showed Trump engaging in his own version of a politics of hope. Plus, Jaime Harrison joins the discussion to talk about his campaign to unseat Senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.  Guest: Jaime Harrison, Democratic candidate for...

Eight weeks from Tuesday is Election Day. Labor Day weekend was overtaken by anonymous quotes offered by former administration insiders, as published in The Atlantic. While former Vice President Joe Biden was in battleground Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump was at the White House, where he used a news conference to push back on the story -- and to suggest he isn't supported by Pentagon brass who "want to do nothing but fight wars." Plus, Brian Stelter joins the podcast to talk about his new...

In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies of a Russian scheme to promote “allegations about the poor mental health” of former Vice President Joe Biden, according to internal emails and a draft of the document obtained by ABC News. Just one hour after its submission, however, a senior DHS official intervened. Guest: John Cohen, former Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence at DHS

A rising GOP star, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron speaks to "Powerhouse Politics" about his speech at the Republican National Convention, Joe Biden's comments about race, and the status of the Breonna Taylor case. GUEST: Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News: https://bit.ly/2Y8Cu8U FiveThirtyEight Politics, nightly reaction and analysis: https://bit.ly/2DXwwB4

As President Trump prepares to accept the GOP nomination on the final night of the Republican National Convention, unrest grows from the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting and the landfall of Hurricane Laura. GUEST: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News: https://bit.ly/2Y8Cu8U FiveThirtyEight Politics, nightly reaction and analysis: https://bit.ly/2DXwwB4

The Trump family took center stage on the second night of the Republican National Convention, with Eric and Tiffany giving speeches before Melania’s keynote from the Rose Garden. Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News: https://bit.ly/2Y8Cu8U FiveThirtyEight Politics, nightly reaction and analysis: https://bit.ly/2DXwwB4

While Sen. Tim Scott’s “From Cotton to Congress” speech offered an optimistic view of the country's future at the Republican National Convention, others spoke more to grievances. GUEST: Political consultant Frank Luntz Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News: https://bit.ly/2Y8Cu8U FiveThirtyEight Politics, nightly reaction and analysis: https://bit.ly/2DXwwB4

With the start of the Republican National Convention, President Trump’s campaign seeks to offer its vision of a second term. GUEST: ABC News contributor Gov. Chris Christie Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News: https://bit.ly/2Y8Cu8U FiveThirtyEight Politics, nightly reaction and analysis: https://bit.ly/2DXwwB4