{"id":262097,"date":"2026-08-09T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262097\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:24:07","slug":"pennsylvania-secretary-of-state-al-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262097\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, August 9, 2026 11:40AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; Host Tamala Edwards talks to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt about allegations from the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security that thousands of non-citizens are on the voting roles in states including Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">She and the panel also discuss efforts to engage more voters in the electoral process, competitive congressional races, a meeting between Pennsylvania Treasurer and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Stacy Garrity and President Trump, and Pennsylvania&#8217;s lawsuit against the Trump administration over its demand for personal information from participants in the state&#8217;s anti-poverty programs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, August 9, 2026 11:40AM 6abc Studios (WPVI) &#8212; Host Tamala Edwards talks to Pennsylvania Secretary of State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[110919,10546,110918,28,30,29,6266,3857],"class_list":["post-262097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-110919","tag-inside-story","tag-no-ya","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-schmidt","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}