ARLINGTON, VA (Updated October 26, 2020) — PBS NewsHour will present live Election 2020 special coverage on Tuesday, November 3, starting at 6 pm ET on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). NewsHour’s regular broadcast and the NewsHour West update will both be pre-empted by the special.
Managing editor Judy Woodruff will anchor special programming from the NewsHour studio in Arlington, VA, with PBS NewsHour senior national correspondent Amna Nawaz, Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins and The Cook Political Report national editor Amy Walter in studio. Joining NewsHour’s coverage remotely will be White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor at the White House; national correspondent John Yang at the Biden/Harris Election Day campaign location; correspondent and PBS NewsHour West anchor Stephanie Sy in Arizona; national correspondent William Brangham; foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin; senior digital political reporter Dan Bush in Pennsylvania; PBS NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Jeff Greenfield; Washington Week moderator and managing editor Robert Costa; syndicated columnist Mark Shields; and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Additional guests include:
Gary Abernathy Washington Post contributing columnist
Joel Benenson Pollster and 2016 Clinton campaign chief strategist
Michael Beschloss Presidential historian
Jonathan Capehart Washington Post columnist
Daniel Garza LIBRE Initiative president and former George W. Bush administration staffer
Errin Haines The 19th editor-at-large
Nina Jankowicz Wilson Center fellow
Eliana Johnson Free Beacon editor-in-chief
Patricia Lopez Star Tribune editorial writer
Tammy Patrick Democracy Fund senior adviser
Nate Persily Stanford University law professor
Katie Walsh Republican National Committee senior adviser
The special will also include extensive reporting from several PBS reporters around the country in battleground states and key senate race locations.
In addition to its broadcast on PBS stations, the coverage will stream across PBS NewsHour’s digital and social platforms, including:
About PBS NewsHour PBS NewsHour is a production of NewsHour Productions LLC, a wholly-owned non-profit subsidiary of WETA Washington, DC, in association with WNET in New York. Major corporate funding is provided by BNSF, Consumer Cellular, Fidelity, Johnson & Johnson, and Raymond James, with additional support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Kendeda Fund, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Lemelson Foundation, National Science Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Skoll Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Friends of the NewsHour and others. More information on PBS NewsHour is available at www.pbs.org/newshour. On social media, visit PBS NewsHour on Facebook or follow @NewsHour on Twitter.
Media contact: Sydney Cameron, Publicist, scameron@newshour.org
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