Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

With Biden's inauguration approaching, Trump is running out of legal ways to challenge the results of the election. So where are those efforts now? On Today's Show:Zoe Tillman, senior legal reporter for BuzzFeed News, talks about how the Trump campaign is still trying to change the results of the election through the courts, and whether there is any chance they could succeed. NOTE: This conversation was recorded on Wednesday, Nov. 25. That afternoon, a judge in Pennsylvania put the certification process on hold, pending a hearing scheduled for Friday, Nov. 27.

Every presidential transition, we can see the incoming administration start to take shape. So what's the executive branch going to look like under Biden? On Today's Show:John Hudson, national security reporter for The Washington Post, talks about the establishment figures President-elect Biden is appointing to join his cabinet and the White House.

For the first woman elected to the Vice Presidency, Kamala Harris's support among women, and specifically white women, is lacking. What political, racial and gender dynamics are at play? On Today's Show:Kat Stafford, AP national race and ethnicity reporter, and Julie Kohler, fellow in residence at the National Women's Law Center, a senior advisor to the Democracy Alliance, a progressive donor network, and host of the podcast White Picket Fence, talk about how women voted and the effect of having a woman on the ticket as vice president. 

Trump continues to try and invalidate the ballots of voters in Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit, areas with large numbers of Black and Latinx voters. On Today's Show:Vanessa Williams, reporter on the national desk at The Washington Post, talks about the latest political news you may have missed over the weekend, and hones in on the, injustice, long perpetrated through this country's history, of disenfranchising voters of color.

Trump's attempts to overturn the election in the courts isn't going well for him. But are there other ways, through quirks in the Electoral College, that he could hold on to power? On Today's Show:Robert Alexander, professor of political science and founding director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University and the author of Representation and the Electoral College (Oxford University Press, 2019), talks about how tightly the Electoral College is bound by certified election results in their states.

Trump's lawsuits continue, but there are so many of them, being brought on so many different complaints, that it's hard to keep track of them all.  On Today's Show:Rebecca Green, professor of law at William & Mary and co-director of its Election Law Program, gives an update on the president's attempts to overturn the results of the election by filing (what most legal experts say are baseless) lawsuits.

Joe Biden has proposed changes that would affect millions of student loan borrowers, while leaders in the Democratic Party have pushed for student debt to be forgiven. Other commentators have said forgiving student loan debt would be unfair to people who did not go to college or have already paid back their loans.  On Today's Show:Sarah Jones, senior writer at the Intelligencer and New York Magazine, talks about the potential backlash against these changes, and argues that change is needed anyway. 

Voters have sent a record-breaking wave of Republican Congresswomen will be going to DC in January, and they want to challenge what they call the 'socialism' of the progressive left. On Today's Show:Olivia Perez-Cubas, communications director for Winning For Women, which advocates and organizes to elect Republican women, and the former communications director for Senator Marco Rubio (R FL), talks about how Republicans got 35 women elected, and what it means for the GOP.

Trump has yet to concede the election. And while he's not doing well in his court ballot challenges, he could turn to state legislatures to help him win the electoral college. On Today's Show:Amber Phillips, Washington Post political reporter and author of “The 5-Minute Fix” newsletter, talks about the latest national political news, as the president still refuses to concede, the Biden transition hums along and the coronavirus continues to rage out of control. 

On Today's Show: Michael Mina, MD, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, talks about the latest developments in COVID-19 testing and when (and how) to get tested.