Ed Rendell: “He was appointed to his current position as Secretary of…”

“One thing you'd add is that Mr. Schmidt was a Republican, was elected as a Republican in Philadelphia. He was the minority Commissioner in Philadelphia as a Republican, but He was appointed to his current position as Secretary of State by Josh Shapiro, a Democrat. because he established himself as so fair and so interested in getting it right. And every person who worked in the election process in this country was like him, I think we'd have no problem.” (16:43–16:53)

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