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>> As the coronavirus explodes
in numbers across America...
>> Just how historically bad
these unemployment numbers
are...
>> The protests against police
brutality across the country...
>> The 2020 presidential race...
>> This is a very polarized
country.
>> A hostile political
environment.
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>> Together we are taking back
our country!
>> We're in a battle
for the soul of America.
>> NARRATOR: This fall,
"The Choice" tells the story
of a deeply divided America
through the lives of the men
who want to lead it.
>> The only way you would get
an acknowledgement out of Donald
that he may have not done it
right, he would say,
"I think my dad would have
done that differently."
>> Fred Trump's concept
that to be a Trump,
you brook no criticism,
you brook no defeat.
>> For Biden,
politics is people,
much more so than ideology
or philosophy.
>> The wife of U.S. Senator
Joseph Biden
was killed today
in a two-car crash...
>> And I think it's born out
of this tragedy he experienced
at the very start
of his national career.
>> We can always get
another senator,
but they can't get
another father.
>> NARRATOR: An investigation
of what drives them.
>> Joe Biden, he cares
about the institution.
Which means you have to talk
to everybody.
He made it a point to talk
to some of the "good old boys,"
the Blue Dog Democrats, even.
>> This president is as real
as it gets.
People appreciate a fighter
and they appreciate someone
that they think's fighting
for them.
>> I hate the people
that took this girl
and raped her brutally.
>> "Bring back
the death penalty,"
the ad says.
Donald Trump signs his name--
people don't sign their name
to things
that they're not proud of.
>> The men served
six to 13 years
before their convictions
were thrown out.
>> The sexual harassment storm
around Clarence Thomas
is intensifying.
>> This all-white panel,
Joe Biden right
in the middle of it.
>> Do you swear to tell
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth?
>> Grilling Anita Hill in a way
that seared into memory
how difficult it can be
for a woman
who is accusing a powerful man
of sexual harassment.
>> He's sitting as the judge
of a black man
who literally just accused
almost every white man
on that panel of racism.
>> It is a high-tech lynching.
>> Mr. Biden and a lot of
the other men on the committee
immediately went
into defensive mode.
>> NARRATOR: And where they
would take the country
in these turbulent times.
>> I.C.Us. are filling up
fast...
>> We have to deal
with this virus
and everything
that comes with it.
>> In the middle
of all of this,
Biden is trying to offer a model
to the country
that is quite different
than Donald Trump.
>> Authorities forcefully
started clearing people out...
>> It was done for the president
to take this very photograph.
>> What he's doing
in this moment is saying,
"This is my show
of telling people
that I can do whatever
I want to do as president."
>> Our nation is witnessing
a merciless campaign...
>> The notion that we can
support marauders
going through the streets
and destroying businesses
is, I think, unfathomable
to most Americans,
and the president comes down
on that side, as well.
 >> NARRATOR: "The Choice,"
a "Frontline" tradition
that critics have declared
a must-see before you vote.
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>> This is a conflict
that's less about policy
or direction for the country,
but it's really a vision
of what the country ought to be.
>> NARRATOR: "The Choice 2020:
Trump vs. Biden."
