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The FRONTLINE Dispatch

The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz (Full-length film audio track)

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this audio-only version of FRONTLINE's documentary The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz, FRONTLINE investigates the lives and views of Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz as they run for vice president. In a historic election, those who know the candidates best reveal the influences and ideas they would bring to the White House.

Stream the documentary on FRONTLINE's website, FRONTLINE's YouTube channel, or the PBS app

Plus, read additional interviews from the making of this documentary as part of the FRONTLINE Transparency Project.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rainierrinson Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer of Frontline and host of the Frontline dispatch.

0:07.0

As we approach election day, we're bringing you a second audio-only version of one of our documentaries.

0:14.0

The VP Choice Vance versus Walls

0:16.3

investigates the lives and views of the two men running

0:19.5

for vice president.

0:21.2

As always, you can stream the film on our website frontline.org as well as

0:25.8

YouTube and the PBS app. Thank you for listening. The Frontline

0:30.5

dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation,

0:33.6

committed to excellence in journalism,

0:35.6

and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hagler. In this

0:56.0

historic election, the political lives of the vice presidential candidates. In this historic election, the political lives of the vice presidential candidates.

1:02.0

Fans had this endless ambition. of the and ideas. The spirit of Progressive Minnesota is alive and well.

1:15.0

A pragmatic problem solver who really believes that government can and should help people.

1:21.0

I felt like the modern world was constantly in fluxed. He feels that the world is moving too fast and it's

1:27.1

casting away its old rules too fast. Everyone at that point was looking at him as someone who understood the working class.

1:35.0

He mobilized people that get out there and pound the pavement in the way that Democrats hadn't before.

1:40.0

Now on frontline, the VP choice, Vance versus Walls.

1:45.0

You see two people who claim to understand and speak to rural Americans,

1:51.0

but their lives and careers have been radically different.

1:57.0

Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you. Thank you. Additional support is provided by

2:05.8

the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. Park Foundation

2:10.7

dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.

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