> to get some perspective we spoke overnight to former congresswoman barbara comstock and amanda renteria, former political director for the hillary clinton campaign. it appears president trump's fight ramps up today. does he have any ground to stand on as he tries to hold on to the white house and with only two gop senators even acknowledging president-elect biden's victory, are party leaders simply holding off because of trump? >> well, i think this weekend you didn't see many republicans out there with any specific details defending the president, and the president's team itself has not come forward with a lot of legal information. you saw chris christie, a former u.s. attorney and friend of the president, saying they have to come up with evidence. so today we will see if they have any actual solid legal information, but to date, neither campaign finance lawyers nor constitutional lawyers have seen a lot of factual information. >>> and, amanda, we know how important, pr, public relations is to this president, and now we're hearing his camp is planning rallies to get his baseless claims

. >> let's bring in abc news contributors amanda renteria and mike muse, surprises for you this morning, amanda? >> well, i think we would have liked to see an earlier evening, certainly would like to have some answers now but at the end of the day, the day started off with biden's campaign saying we got to keep the blue wall, keep that in mind as we go throughout the day. i would have liked to see some of the senate races turn, quite a few surprises in terms of trump bringing out new voters to really match what biden's team did in early vote and really the energy we saw out there. a lot of news out there, a lot of data we'll look through but not where we hoped to be but more to see in the election. >> mike, the president ran on a law and order message and seeing tonight he was not only able to so lied phi his base but expand it what does it mean for this country? >> it means that our country has more healing to do, mona. there is more reconciliation, i believe that people are waking up to it this morning. some may be shocked and some may be surprised but it's time that we deal with the

. >> joining us now is abc news contributor, amanda renteria, former national political director for hillary clinton's presidential campaign and former republican virginia congresswoman barbara comstock. barbara, let me start with you. some surprises there for republicans this morning. >> oh, certainly. you know, the polls -- not only were the public polls wrong, republican internal polls were wrong. we were a lot more worried about whether we were going to lose house seats, and now it looks like we gained them and gained some really good women that i worked with, so i was very happy to see those races go through, and then we also were very concerned about what was going to happen on the state legislative level, and again in texas and florida and georgia, north carolina, we've done very well in the statehouse, which, you know, goes to redistricting for the next ten years, so those were pleasant surprises, and obviously we're still a 50/50 country, and so we are seeing, you know, it's going to be very tight here, but i'm part of a group called the national council, you know, protect v

earlier, we spoke with abc contributors barbara comstock and former hillary clinton eight amanda renteria>> barbara, it appears president trump's fierce legal fight really ramps up today. does he have any ground to stand on as he tries to hold onto the white house? and with only two gop senators even acknowledging president-elect biden's victory, are party leaders holding off because of trump? >> this weekend you didn't see many republicans out there with any specific details defending the president. the president's team itself has not come forward with a lot of legal information. you saw chris christie saying they have to come up with evidence. today we will see if they have any actually solid legal information, but to date neither campaign finance lawyers nor constitutional lawyers have seen a lot of factual information. >> we know how important public relations is to this president. now we're hearing the president's camp is planning rallies to get his baseless claims out there that he won the election. what could this do? >> it sows more distrust between the parties. it creates a lot m

amanda renteria, ceo of coalition for america.iser with the lincoln project. thank you for joining us. tara, i start with you. how would you describe where we're at 24 hours after election day? >> well, i would say that we're a lot closer to a president-elect biden than we are a president trump continuing on in a second term. and as close as it is, i think the american people need to have patience, they need to keep faith, and we need to keep counting votes. and any attempt to stop the legal counting of votes i think is something that the republican party really does not have an appetite for, despite donald trump and the misinformation he's putting out there because he's staring down the barrel of defeat and throwing a hail mary with these legal challenges, which i suspect are not going to have standing. have patience, have vigilance, and let the system work. >> amanda, as you know, we are not a patient people, right? biden came out to say he believed he was on track to win the electoral votes. would you agree with his assessment?

. >> overnight we spoke to barbara comstock and amanda renteria, former political director for the clinton campaign. >> does the trump camp have a good legal argument in any of these outstanding states? >> i think that president's path is certainly narrowing and i think the most important thing is we count the votes. i'm part of an organization that's bipartisan that is focused on making sure we count every vote and soberly and seriously take this process to its natural conclusion so that whatever the result, people feel confident in it. the legal cases that i've seen thus far, you know, i don't see a lot of strong indications of a strong legal case here. >> and, amanda, this question is for you. democrats were hoping for a blow-out in election. clearly what we're seeing the two are neck and neck. in the final days until the election we saw the president was holding twice as many rallies. do you believe that joe biden could have been more aggressive in his campaigning? >> i think it was more important for trump to do that because that's what he does. it wouldn't have made sense for biden.

. >>> we spoke overnight to former virginia congresswoman barbara comstock and amanda renteria, former political director for the clinton campaign to get their perspectives. i want to start with you, barbara. the president had a stunning news conference earlier this afternoon in which the president claims that he wins only if legal votes are counted without any evidence of fraud. he also said -- made allegations of illegal voting in neveda. i want to get your reaction on the president's claims. >> it was reprehensible and it not only was graceless, you know, sore loser or anticipating being a loser, it is dangerous to our election integrity, and i'm part of a group called the national council on election integrity, and i'd like to just read a little bit of their statement that they put out tonight in response to it. it's, quote, the president spent 15 minutes this evening using the podium of the white house to make false claims that undermine the integrity of our elections, and that's from 40 people including people like dan coats, who was part of his administration, michael chertoff,

with me now, amanda renteria, former national political director for hillary clinton's campaign. code for america. emmy reece, former senior adviser to kamala harris's 2020 campaign. and errin haines, also an msnbc contributor. ladies, good to see you all. amanda, i want to start with you having trump's former chief of staff john kelly criticizing over the delay of transition, saying the president does not have to concede, but it's about the nation. it hurts our national security because the people who should be getting up to speed, it's not a process where you go from zero to a thousand miles per hour. drawing from your experience, aman amanda, what do you make of this lack of cooperation from the trump administration? how different does it make things then pour the biden transition team? >> it's tough. so there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work that does need to happen. you need to learn from the folks that are in the job. you need the learn what's happened over the last four years. the good news is that biden does and is bringing together a team with experience, with talent,

let's go to amanda renteria, whojoins us now. is probably the first time we've done this for a long time in a presidential election night. normally we would think of it is going pretty solid republican because it only went 5% for mr trump in 2016, but i suspect as a democrat you will be encouraged that georgia tonight is in contention?” you will be encouraged that georgia tonight is in contention? i am incredibly encouraged, but i have to say 2018 it was also closer, when stacey abrams ran for governor she was two to three points away so it's moving in this direction, there's beena moving in this direction, there's been a lot of work behind the themes on infrastructure, etc, to get out younger voters, communities of colour and i have to say while we wa nt colour and i have to say while we want to talk about economics and i understand that's certainly what republicans want to talk about, what's happening on the ground and a lot of these communities is the effects of covid not only are black and brown communities part of essential

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