{"id":319127,"date":"2026-08-12T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319127\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:58:08","slug":"capital-tonight-august-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319127\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Tonight: August 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state Democratic Party wants Republican Bruce Blakeman to stop using AI videos to portray opponent Gov. Kathy Hochul and other Democrats in his bid to unseat her this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, chair Jay Jacobs filed a formal complaint with the state board of Elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Plus,\u00a0on Tuesday, New York state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez announced that from Aug. 22 \u2013 Aug. 30, she\u2019s embarking on a statewide tour to advance the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/06\/03\/new-york-data-center-moratorium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Responsible Data Center Development Act<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state Democratic Party wants Republican Bruce Blakeman to stop using AI videos to portray opponent Gov. Kathy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22136,19663,9,11,10,49,51,50,201,200],"class_list":["post-319127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-capital-tonight-show","tag-ctv-capital-tonight-full-episode","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}