Alice Stewart, a Republican strategist and CNN political commentator, has died. She is 58 years old.
His death was reported by CNN. The agency said police found Ms Stewart’s body outside in northern Virginia early on Saturday morning. Officials said they believed she had a medical emergency, but did not say why.
CNN’s chief executive, Mark Thompson, described him in an email to employees as “a political veteran and Emmy Award-winning journalist who brings an unparalleled spark to CNN’s coverage.”
Ms. Stewart has appeared on the cable news network as a conservative commentator since the 2016 presidential election. Before that, he worked on several Republican presidential campaigns.
He was communications director for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign, and served in similar roles for Republican candidates in two subsequent elections, including Michael Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Ted Cruz..
Mrs. Stewart was deputy secretary of state in Arkansas A fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics in 2020. He also worked for Republican and conservative organizations.
On CNN, Ms. Stewart cast herself as a loyal promoter of conservatism, while Republican President Donald J. Reshaped itself under Trump’s leadership.
“I don’t think everything he does is great, and I don’t think everything he does is bad,” Ms Stewart said of Mr Trump. 2020 interview with Harvard Political Review. “My position at CNN is to be a conservative voice and an independent thinker.”
In an opinion piece published on CNN last year, Mr. Ms. Stewart asked Republican voters to reconsider their unconditional support for Trump’s 2024 reelection bid, given the various criminal charges he faces.
“This is a campaign about self-preservation, not selfless public service,” he said wrote “I don’t believe in making America great again.”
He worked as a press secretary before switching to politics in 2005 Mr. In Huckabee’s administrationMrs. Stewart was a news anchor and reporter for seven years at the NBC television affiliate in Little Rock, Ark.
“I loved covering politics. I loved the courts. I loved breaking news,” Ms. Stewart said in a 2020 interview. Harvard International Review. “But, years ago, I felt I needed to do something else.”
He was born on March 11, 1966 in Atlanta and graduated from the University of Georgia with degrees in broadcast news and political science.
Ms. Stewart last appeared on CNN Friday on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”
Information about her survivors was not immediately available.
