The sudden and tragic passing of Alice Stewart, a former media assistant, and social commentator, shocked Washington this year. Stewart, just 58, had appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room as late as last Friday. The Belle View town in northern Virginia, where her body was discovered the following morning, had her body. Officials have ruled out bad play, but they do not already know the cause of her death.
Stewart was born on March 11, 1966, in Atlanta. An serious football fan and an mainly committed supporter of her Georgia Bulldogs, after graduating from the University of Georgia and working as a regional TV reporter in Savannah, Stewart moved to Arkansas, where she worked while a reporter, anchor, and, afterward, a producer for Little Rock’s NBC affiliate, KARK- 4. In the early 2000s, Stewart, and not completely leaving Television behind, began to changeover from press to politics. She became governor of Arkansas. Mike Huckabee‘s workers as communications producer. Stewart was one of Huckabee’s first recruits for his presidential campaign when he left business to run for president in 2007. Stewart’s cunning strategy and media savvy helped Huckabee defeat the subsequent Republican candidate, John McCain, in the Iowa caucuses and place next in the delegate count. Huckabee stated this week that” the announcement of her death has been significantly depressing both my family and myself.  ,
Stewart’s popularity with the Huckabee campaign helped her gain press coverage for the upcoming Democratic political activities. She worked as a communications planner for the then-Florida governor while also serving as the communications director for Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann’s activities. Rick Scott. In 2016, Stewart helped Sen. Ted Cruz ( R- TX ) became a legitimate contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Under Stewart’s media and communications advice, Cruz won the Iowa caucuses and 10 different states, finishing as the delegate- matter runner- up to future nominee Donald Trump.  ,
After the Cruz strategy, Stewart returned to broadcast while branching out to other methods. She began working for CNN as a social scientist in 2016, and she frequently appears on programs like Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room. Although she acknowledged that she had been hired to be one of the network’s liberal tones, Stewart declared that she was” an independent thinker”, not a reactionary bird:” I’m not a Kool- Help connoisseur, I’m not a never- Trumper, and I did n’t examine my common sense and decency at the door when I voted for]Trump ]”. Stewart even contributed to NPR and the SiriusXM television program POTUS. She and Maria Cardona, a political critic and CNN researcher, co-founded the Popular Mics From Left to Right podcast in 2020. Popular Mics had been gaining popularity, late occupying the top 100 of Apple’s most saved political podcasts, despite facing stiff competition in a press market where it now appears to have more audiobooks than people.  ,
A sought- after speech at conferences such as the Learn Right Summit and the Leadership Institute, where she presided over media coaching for aspiring traditional politicians, Stewart was even a serious runner, most just completing a Washington, D. C., marathon and the 2023 New York City marathon. She enjoyed botany and gardening, taking pride in cultivating crocuses and other seasonal plants, adored her Shih Tzu, Sammie, and admired Winston Churchill.  ,  ,
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Above and beyond her first- rate political communications acumen, in the all- too- often toxic contemporary political environment, Stewart stood out for her decency, sincerity, honesty, and kindness. Stewart was a “faithful witness to her Savior Jesus,” according to Santorum, and her integrity and demeanor made her one of the more well-liked political media professionals on either side of the aisle. This is one of the reasons why her death has had such an impact on the Washington political class. In a tribute to his departed colleague, Wolf Blitzer called her” a very special person”. Blitzer stated on CNN Newsroom,” We always invited her to come on my show because we knew we would be a little bit smarter at the end of that conversation. She made it easier for our viewers to understand what was happening, which is why we will miss her so much.”
Another of her CNN colleagues, Dana Bash, described her as” somebody who told it straight”, without histrionics or ad hominem attacks. Still, though, for Bash, as for so many others who were fortunate to cross paths with her, it was her personal qualities that distinguished her. Stewart “brought kindness and support”, Bash said, not only intelligence and expertise. Another media observer recalled how she would bring extra food to events for sluggish reporters who frequently found themselves too busy and hurried to get proper meals during political campaigns. Washington, indeed, has lost one of its truly good ones.
Daniel Ross Goodman is a , Washington Examiner , contributing writer and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School. His latest book,  , Soloveitchik’s Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America, was published last summer by the University of Alabama Press.
