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How PBS ‘Frontline’ Scrambled To Produce The Harris Vs. Trump Documentary ‘The Choice’ After The Unprecedented Shakeup In The 2024 Race
The filmakers had just weeks to make a project that usually takes months.
The documentary of the two major parties’ presidential nominees has been a quadrennial tradition, and its filmmaker, Michael Kirk, had weeks earlier screened a four-hour rough cut of Biden vs. Trump. As it turned out, Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath had also insisted that Kirk and his team also make a first-of-its-kind documentary on the vice president, meaning that they were already gathering material on the Democrats’ eventual nominee, Kamala Harris. When she attended the officer’s funeral, then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) delivered the eulogy and, in a rebuke of Harris’ decision, said, “This is not only the definition of tragedy, it’s the special circumstance called for by the death penalty law.” The crowd of mourners cheered.
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