Trump campaign disavows lawyer Sidney Powell: Transition updates

Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said Sunday that President-elect Joe Biden will soon announce his first cabinet picks, a sign that he is moving swiftly forward with his transition despite President Donald Trump's refusal to concede the race.

"You're going to see the first of the president-elect's cabinet appointments on Tuesday of this week," Klain told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on "This Week."

-ABC News' John Verhovek

Since Election Day, the Trump campaign and its allies have lost in court at least 30 times in their efforts to overturn the results of the election, according to an ABC News count. 

The campaign itself has filed 19 lawsuits across 5 states-- 17 of which have been lost so far by being denied, dismissed, withdrawn, etc. The campaign has had one win.

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Pennsylvania Republican Governor Pat Toomey calls for Trump to 'stand down'

Matthew Dowd joins "This Week" this morning to discuss where our country and democracy is heading after the president seems to not be backing down from his baseless claims of election fraud.

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-ABC News' Olivia Rubin

When ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked former New Jersey Governor and ABC News Contributor Chris Christie if it was time for Trump's challenges to the election results to end, he agreed.

"Yes. And here's the reason why the president has had an opportunity to access the courts," Christie said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "And I said to you -- you know, George, starting at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, if you've got the evidence of fraud, present it."

"What's happened here is quite frankly -- the conduct of the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment," he added.

The Trump campaign announced Saturday night that it’s requesting a recount in Georgia, a state that certified its results on Friday showing Joe Biden won the state.

The move follows a hand-count audit that reaffirmed the results of the machine tabulation were accurate. The Trump campaign says in the statement they filed for the recount on Saturday.

The campaign claims in the statement "without signature matching, this recount will be a sham" -- but the signature-matching process has already taken place. Under state law, the recount would use high-capacity scanners and would not be conducted by hand.

"We are focused on ensuring that every aspect of Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution are followed so that every legal vote is counted," the campaign said in a statement. "President Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards."

While the signatures were not matched during the hand audit, signatures were already matched twice because they are first verified upon receipt of the voter's application, and then again when the ballot is received.

Trump supporters rallied at the Georgia state Capitol on Saturday. Biden won the state by 12,284 votes following the audit, which is under the 0.5% of total votes necessary to request a recount. The Trump campaign had until Tuesday to request the recount.

-ABC News' Will Steakin