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Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist and political commentator on CNN, has died. She was 58.
Her dying was introduced by CNN. The firm stated the police discovered Ms. Stewart’s physique open air in Northern Virginia early Saturday morning. The authorities imagine she had a medical emergency.
Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief government, described her in an e-mail to employees members as “a political veteran and an Emmy Award-winning journalist who introduced an incomparable spark to CNN’s protection” and who was recognized not simply “for her political savvy, however for her unwavering kindness,” CNN reported.
Ms. Stewart had appeared on the cable information outlet as a conservative commentator for the reason that 2016 presidential race. Before that, Ms. Stewart had labored on a number of Republican presidential campaigns.
She was the communications director for the 2008 presidential marketing campaign of Mike Huckabee, the previous Arkansas governor, and went on to serve in comparable roles for Republican candidates in two following elections, together with Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz, in line with her LinkedIn profile.
Ms. Stewart served because the deputy secretary of state in Arkansas, in line with the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, the place she was a fellow in 2020. She had additionally finished work for the Republican Party and conservative organizations.
At CNN, Ms. Stewart seen herself as a devoted promoter of conservatism whereas the Republican Party reshaped itself beneath the management of former President Donald J. Trump.
“I don’t assume the whole lot that he does is nice, and I don’t assume the whole lot that he does is dangerous,” Ms. Stewart stated of Mr. Trump in a 2020 interview with Harvard Political Review. “My place at CNN is to be a conservative voice but an impartial thinker.”
In an opinion piece revealed on CNN final yr, Ms. Stewart requested Republican voters to rethink their unconditional assist for Mr. Trump’s 2024 election bid given the assorted prison expenses he faces.
“This is a marketing campaign about self-preservation, not selfless public service,” Ms. Stewart wrote. “I’m not satisfied that’s the way you Make America Great Again.”
Ms. Stewart had expertise presenting concepts on dwell tv lengthy earlier than she joined CNN.
Before transitioning to politics in 2005 with a job as press secretary within the administration of Mr. Huckabee, Ms. Stewart was a information anchor and reporter for seven years at an NBC tv affiliate in Little Rock, Ark., in line with LinkedIn.
“I cherished overlaying politics. I cherished courts. I cherished breaking information,” Ms. Stewart stated in a 2020 interview with Harvard International Review. “But, a number of years in the past, I simply realized that there may be one thing completely different for me to do.”
Ms. Stewart was born on March 11, 1966, in Atlanta, in line with CNN. She earned a level in broadcast information and political science from the University of Georgia, in line with Harvard International Review.
Ms. Stewart final appeared on CNN on Friday on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” CNN stated.
An inventory of survivors was not instantly out there.
