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🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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As part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, all this week we’re publishing key interviews conducted as part of the reporting for The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden, a two-hour documentary special about the major-party political candidates. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden airs on PBS and online Tuesday, September 22nd. Read more about Frontline’s Transparency Project at frontline.org.
In this episode, Valerie Biden Owens is interviewed by FRONTLINE’s Jim Gilmore. Valerie Biden Owens is Joe Biden’s sister and has managed his seven senatorial campaigns, as well as his presidential campaigns. She talks about Joe Biden’s childhood in their Catholic family, including his struggles with a stutter and how that shaped his character.
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0:46.0 | Valerie Biden is Joe Biden's sister and has managed his seven senatorial campaigns |
0:52.0 | as well as his earlier presidential campaigns. |
0:55.0 | As part of Frontline's Transparency Project, all this week we're posting key |
0:59.2 | interviews from the Choice 2020 and the run-up to the release on September 22nd of that two-hour |
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1:09.4 | Interviewed by Frontline Jim Gilmore, Valerie Biden talks about key moments that shaped her |
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1:50.6 | and the family relationship together together the importance of loyalty. |
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