The 2020 presidential election isn’t expected to be called Tuesday night, but networks are gearing up to stay on the air for as long as it takes.
While waking up Wednesday mornings to the results (or not, depending on how things go) is a perfectly valid option, if you think you can handle live coverage, here’s how to follow along on your favorite network.
ABC
ABC News kicks off live coverage at 7 p.m. ET with chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir and “ABC News Live Prime” anchor Linsey Davis.
White House correspondent Rachel Scott, senior congressional correspondent and lead campaign correspondent Mary Bruce, senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega, chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas, chief national affairs correspondent Tom Llamas, chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz and chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl will all report on their various beats throughout the night.
ABC will also have on-the-ground reporting in battleground states.
CBS
CBS News will broadcast live from Times Square headquarters beginning at 7 p.m. ET with “continuous coverage with exit poll analysis and up-to-the-minute calls from the CBS News Decision Desk.”
“CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell, “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King, “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan, “60 Minutes” correspondent John Dickerson, and CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe will anchor the desk.
Chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett will provide live reporting on exit polls and voter integrity, alongside chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes on House and Senate races, Maria Elena Salinas on various voting blocks and Jeff Pegues on election security and misinformation.
Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett will also be on hand.
CNN
“Election Night in America” coverage begins at 4 p.m. ET with Dana Bash, Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Abby Phillip and Jake Tapper behind the desk in Washington, D.C. Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon will take over for the late-night coverage, along with chief national correspondent John King and his famous Magic Wall.
CNN political director David Chalian, senior White House correspondent Pamela Brown, senior political analyst Mark Preston and analysts Gloria Borger, Van Jones, David Axelrod and Rick Santorum will help guide the evening.
C-SPAN
Greta Brawner and Peter Slen will launch election night coverage at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday and hold down the fort through to 7 a.m. ET Wednesday, at which point Bill Scanlan will take over. Viewer calls will be taken all night.
Fox News
Chief political anchor Bret Baier and “The Story” host Martha MacCallum will anchor “Fox News Democracy 2020” beginning at 6 p.m. ET with help from Chris Wallace, Brit Hume, Dana Perino, Juan Williams, Donna Brazile, Karl Rove and Katie Pavlich. Anchor Bill Hemmer has control of the electronic “Bill-board.”
Shannon Bream and Jon Scott will take over at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday before making way for an early “Fox and Friends” at 5 a.m.
On Fox Business Network, Neil Cavuto opens “Democracy 2020: Election Night” at 7 p.m. ET with Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Charles Payne, Gerry Baker, Elizabeth MacDonald, Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery, Charlie Gasparino, Robert Wolf and Jackie DeAngelis.
David Asman will handle overnight coverage on FBN.
NBC
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt, NBC News chief legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie, “Meet the Press” moderator and NBC News political director Chuck Todd and NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and senior Washington correspondent Andrea Mitchell come on the air at 7 p.m. ET. Kate Snow will tap in at 2 a.m. ET Wednesday.
On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Brian Williams, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid open their show at 6 p.m. ET with political correspondent Steve Kornacki at the “Big Board.” Chris Hayes, Lawrence O’Donnell and Ari Melber will be on standby, and Katy Tur and Ayman Mohyeldin will join later.
Showtime
Just like in 2016, Stephen Colbert will host a live election night special, “Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand: Building Back America Great Again Better 2020.” The hour-long special, starting at 11 p.m. ET, will feature Colbert “reacting in real-time to election results as the state-by-state returns come in.”
Guests include Charlamagne Tha God and “The Circus” hosts Alex Wagner, John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon.
Telemundo
José Díaz-Balart, Felicidad Aveleyra, Julio Vaqueiro, Vanessa Hauc and Paulina Sodi kick off Telemundo’s coverage at 7 p.m. and will use NBC’s Decision Desk team.
