Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist and political commentator on CNN, has died. She was 58.
Her demise was introduced by CNN. The corporate mentioned the police discovered Ms. Stewart’s physique outdoor in Northern Virginia early Saturday morning. The authorities imagine she had a medical emergency.
Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief govt, 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 identified 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 because the 2016 presidential race. Earlier than 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 response to her LinkedIn profile.
Ms. Stewart served because the deputy secretary of state in Arkansas, in response to the Harvard Kennedy College Institute of Politics, the place she was a fellow in 2020. She had additionally completed work for the Republican Get together and conservative organizations.
At CNN, Ms. Stewart seen herself as a devoted promoter of conservatism whereas the Republican Get together reshaped itself beneath the management of former President Donald J. Trump.
“I don’t assume all the things that he does is nice, and I don’t assume all the things that he does is unhealthy,” Ms. Stewart mentioned of Mr. Trump in a 2020 interview with Harvard Political Evaluate. “My place at CNN is to be a conservative voice but an unbiased 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 fees he faces.
“It 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 Nice Once more.”
Ms. Stewart had expertise presenting concepts on stay tv lengthy earlier than she joined CNN.
Earlier than 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 response to LinkedIn.
“I beloved masking politics. I beloved courts. I beloved breaking information,” Ms. Stewart mentioned in a 2020 interview with Harvard Worldwide Evaluate. “However, a number of years in the past, I simply realized that there may be one thing totally different for me to do.”
Ms. Stewart was born on March 11, 1966, in Atlanta, in response to CNN. She earned a level in broadcast information and political science from the College of Georgia, in response to Harvard Worldwide Evaluate.
Ms. Stewart final appeared on CNN on Friday on “The Scenario Room with Wolf Blitzer,” CNN mentioned.
A listing of survivors was not instantly out there.
