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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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.

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Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.

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We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you listen.

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Right now, here is the Audiocast of the VP Choice.

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Vance versus Walls. You're going to. In this historic election, the political lives of the vice presidential

0:44.1

candidates.

0:45.1

Vance had this endless ambition to get somewhere.

0:48.7

This is a guy who is super competitive.

0:51.6

Their influences and ideas.

0:54.0

The spirit of Progressive Minnesota is alive and well.

0:57.0

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

1:03.5

I felt like the modern world was constantly in fluxed.

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He feels that the world is moving too fast

1:09.2

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

1:18.0

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

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Now on front line, the VP choice, Vance versus Walls.

1:28.3

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

1:33.7

But their lives and careers have been radically different.

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Park Foundation dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.

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