The FRONTLINE Interviews:

The Choice 2024

Our Sources. On the Record. At Your Fingertips.

To produce The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump, the FRONTLINE team conducted nearly 40 interviews with friends, advisers and colleagues of both candidates, as well as journalists who have covered the lives and political rise of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The team also drew on an archive of FRONTLINE interviews conducted for previous films that explore the life and career of Donald Trump. As Americans go to the polls in a contentious election, these interviews provide insight into the personal and political lives of the candidates, and a better understanding of how they might approach the office of the president. The interviews can be explored below in video or text. The collection is part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, which makes our source material available to the public.

Interviews

Ken Auletta
The New Yorker

Text
Noah Bierman
Los Angeles Times

Text
Gwenda Blair
Author, The Trumps

Text
Marie Brenner
Vanity Fair

Text
Laphonza Butler
U.S. Senator (D-CA)

Text
Elaina Plott Calabro
The Atlantic

Text
Kellyanne Conway
Trump Adviser

Video
Robert Costa
CBS News

Video
Gil Duran
Harris Adviser

Text
Ashley Etienne
Harris Adviser

Video
Marc Fisher
Co-author, Trump Revealed

Video
Joe Garofoli
Co-host, Chronicled: Who is Kamala Harris?

Text
Karen Gibbs
Harris Friend

Text
Newt Gingrich
Author, Understanding Trump

Video
Christina Greer
Author, Black Ethnics

Video
Nikki Haskell
Trump Friend

Text
Stacey Johnson-Batiste
Harris Childhood Friend

Text
Wanda Kagan
Harris Friend

Text
Jonathan Karl
ABC News

Video
Jamilah King
Mother Jones

Video
Tal Kopan
Co-host, Chronicled: Who is Kamala Harris?

Video
Rohini Kosoglu
Harris Adviser

Text
Michael Kranish
The Washington Post

Text
Carol Leonnig
Co-author, I Alone Can Fix It

Text
Jill Louis
Harris Friend

Video
Alan Marcus
Trump PR Adviser

Text
David Marcus
Cousin of Roy Cohn

Video
Debbie Mesloh
Harris Aide

Text
Brian Nelson
Harris Adviser

Text
Timothy O’Brien
Executive editor, Bloomberg View

Text
Brad Parscale
Trump Campaign Manager

Video
Carole Porter
Harris Childhood Friend

Text
Barbara Res
Former VP, Trump Organization

Text
Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post

Text
Tony Schwartz
Co-Author, Trump: The Art of the Deal

Text
Scott Shafer
KQED

Text
Lateefah Simon
Harris Friend

Video
Ace Smith
Harris Campaign Adviser

Video
Andrea Dew Steele
Harris Adviser

Text
Roger Stone
Former Trump Adviser

Text
Courtney Subramanian
Los Angeles Times

Video
Louise Sunshine
Former Trump Adviser

Text
Darlene Superville
The Associated Press

Video
Mary Trump
Donald Trump's Niece

Video
Paula White
Trump Spiritual Adviser

Video

Interviews for The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump were conducted by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser of the Kirk Documentary Group and edited for the web by Lauren Prestileo and Phil Bennett. The Transparency Project is produced by Lauren Prestileo.

Design and build for The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump by Dan Nolan and Anthony DeLorenzo with assistance from Kimberly Patch. Video editing by O. Deborah Afolayan. Copy editing by Julie Wolf. Additional assistance from Kristina Abovyan, Miles Alvord, Priyanka Boghani, Ambika Kandasamy, Refael Kubersky, Tessa Maguire and Patrice Taddonio.

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