PBS News Hour - Politics

Kamala Harris gave her victory speech wearing all white on Saturday night after her glass ceiling-shattering win as Vice President-elect. Barbara Perry, Director of Presidential Studies and co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the historic nature of Harris' election and the road it took to get here. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are headed to the White House, Democrats who were hoping to increase their margins in the House and take control of the Senate, failed to strengthen their position in Congress. Jeff Greenfield joins to discuss the election results and how the Senate runoff in Georgia will determine the future of Biden's presidency. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and their team prepare their transition to the White House, including taking on the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Trump campaign announces a long legal battle over the results. NewsHour's John Yang joins from Wilmington, Delawar where Biden and Harris are preparing to address the nation on Saturday night. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

President Trump has vowed to challenge the election results, which have declared Joe Biden as the president-elect. The legal challenges began well before Election Day with lawsuits over mail-in voting and which ballots were "legally" cast. Guy-Uriel Charles, professor of law at Duke University and co-director of the Center of Law, Race and Politics joins to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

With news outlets from the Associated Press to Fox News calling the election in favor of Joe Biden on Saturday, President Trump's camp continued their legal efforts to contest the election results, and many Republican leaders remained silent. Yamiche Alcindor joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss Trump's strategy, as well as Kamala Harris' historic win as the first woman of color to be elected Vice President. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Nearly 5 million ballots were cast in Georgia, where razor-thin margins in the presidential election mean the state will enter a recount process in the coming weeks, and a January runoff will decide the fate of both the state's Senate seats. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Rickey Bevington joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss why, between now and January's runoff election, all eyes will be on Georgia. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Election Day has come and gone, but there are still many unanswered questions, along with uncertainty about how we got here and where we go next. In this episode, we talk to our reporters who have been covering this election from two pivotal battleground states. NewsHour political reporter Daniel Bush gives a sense of what has driven voters in Pennsylvania to vote in record numbers and just how deep the political divisions run there. And correspondent Miles O'Brien is in Georgia, where he sheds light on the new ways people vote and the changing election infrastructure around it. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Trump in three of the five states yet to be called by the Associated Press. Still, it's not clear when vote counting will conclude. Meanwhile, Trump lashed out at the voting process in a Thursday news briefing, and his campaign is filing lawsuits to challenge results. Yamiche Alcindor reports and joins John Yang and Judy Woodruff to discuss.

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Election officials are still counting ballots in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, with former Vice President Joe Biden leading in all four states. But the margins appear to be narrow enough for uncertainty, and some states are expecting recounts. Judy Woodruff gets the latest updates from Daniel Bush in Philadelphia, Miles O'Brien in Atlanta and Stephanie Sy in Phoenix. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

The week has seen a flood of disinformation about the election -- much of it coming from President Trump and his allies. In addition to false claims about voter fraud, there have been allegations that polling firms conspired to discourage Trump supporters from voting, and social media misinformation remains difficult to control. William Brangham joins Judy Woodruff to discuss facts vs. falsehoods. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders