{"id":2251792,"date":"2024-05-24T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alice-stewart-1966-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T05:20:18","slug":"alice-stewart-1966-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alice-stewart-1966-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Stewart (1966-2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falice-stewart-1966-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251792&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Washington mourns the loss \u2063of Alice Stewart,\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-teachers-try-to-ban-to-kill-a-mockingbird\/\" title=\"Teachers attempt to ban 'To Kill A Mockingbird' due to woke ideology.\">respected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-detailed-inventory-on-election-fraud-in-the-2020-election-by-deroy-murdock-provides-strong-evidence-on-president-trumps-performance-in-all-the-swing-states-and-overall-race\/\" title=\"New Detailed Inventory on Election Fraud in the 2020 Election by Deroy Murdock Provides Strong Evidence on President Trump\u2019s Performance in All the Swing States and Overall Race\">political commentator<\/a><\/a> and media expert. Stewart&#8217;s sudden passing at 58 shocked many as her\u200d body was found in northern Virginia. Her career from TV to politics made her influential, notably in Mike Huckabee&#8217;s campaign.\u200c Stewart&#8217;s legacy includes \u2062successful media roles \u2064and a\u200d popular podcast, showcasing her talent and\u2064 diverse interests. Washington is grieving the loss of Alice Stewart, a revered political commentator\u2062 and media authority.\u200b Her\u200d sudden death at 58 in northern Virginia\u200d has deeply saddened many.\u200d Stewart&#8217;s impactful journey \u200bfrom television to politics, particularly in Mike \u2063Huckabee&#8217;s \u2062campaign, illustrates \u2062her influence. Her remarkable legacy encompasses thriving media endeavors and a \u2062well-received podcast, highlighting her talent and\u2063 wide-ranging passions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Washington was shaken this week by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3009193\/alice-stewart-dies-at-58\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sudden and tragic death<\/a> of the political commentator and veteran media adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/1195533\/new-cruz-pr-director-has-only-one-goal-in-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alice Stewart<\/a>. Stewart, only 58, had appeared on CNN\u2019s <em>The Situation Room<\/em> as recently as last Friday. Her body was found the following day in the Belle View neighborhood in northern Virginia. Authorities do not yet know the cause of her death, but they have ruled out foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart was born on March 11, 1966, in Atlanta. An avid football fan and an especially devoted supporter of her Georgia Bulldogs, after graduating from the University of Georgia and working as a local TV reporter in Savannah, Stewart moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arkansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Arkansas<\/a>, where she worked as a reporter, anchor, and, later, a producer for Little Rock\u2019s NBC affiliate, KARK-4. In the early 2000s, Stewart, while never completely leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>TV<\/a> behind, began to transition from media to politics. She joined Arkansas Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-huckabee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Huckabee<\/a>\u2019s staff as communications director. When Huckabee left office to run for president in 2007, Stewart was one of his presidential campaign\u2019s first hires. Stewart\u2019s shrewd strategizing and media savvy helped Huckabee win the Iowa caucuses and finish second in the delegate count to the eventual Republican nominee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-mccain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John McCain<\/a>. \u201cThe news of her death has been deeply sobering to me personally and to my family,\u201d Huckabee stated this week. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(L-R) Ed Goeas, Alice Stewart and Bob Heckman speaking for Michele Bachman in the spin room after The New Hampshire Republican Presidential Debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. (James Leynse\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stewart\u2019s success in the Huckabee campaign allowed her to secure media positions with subsequent Republican presidential campaigns. She served as communications director for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rick-santorum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rick Santorum<\/a>\u2019s and Michele Bachmann\u2019s campaigns while also working as a communications strategist for then-Florida Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rick-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rick Scott<\/a>. In 2016, Stewart helped Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ted-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) become a legitimate contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Under Stewart\u2019s media and communications guidance, Cruz won the Iowa caucuses and 10 other states, finishing as the delegate-count runner-up to eventual nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>After the Cruz campaign, Stewart returned to television while branching out to other mediums. In 2016, she began working as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">political analyst<\/a> for CNN, appearing regularly on shows like <em>The Situation Room<\/em> <em>with Wolf Blitzer<\/em>. Although she acknowledged that she had been hired to be one of the network\u2019s conservative voices, Stewart declared that she was \u201can independent thinker,\u201d not a doctrinaire parrot: \u201cI\u2019m not a Kool-Aid drinker; I\u2019m not a never-Trumper, and I didn\u2019t check my common sense and decency at the door when I voted for [Trump].\u201d Stewart was also a contributor to NPR and the SiriusXM radio show <em>POTUS<\/em>. In 2020, she launched the <em>Hot Mics From Left to Right <\/em>podcast with the political commentator and CNN analyst Maria Cardona. Although it faced stiff competition in a media market that now appears to have more podcasts than people, <em>Hot Mics<\/em> had been gaining traction, recently climbing into the top 100 of Apple\u2019s most downloaded political podcasts. <\/p>\n<p>A sought-after speaker at conferences such as the Learn Right Summit and the Leadership Institute, where she presided over media training for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cpac-schedule-2024-who-is-speaking\/\" title=\"CPAC 2024: Speaker Lineup\">aspiring conservative politicians<\/a>, Stewart was also a serious runner, most recently 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.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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. A proud Christian and, in Santorum\u2019s words, a \u201cfaithful witness to her Savior Jesus,\u201d Stewart\u2019s integrity and geniality made her one of the more well-liked political media professionals on either side of the aisle, which is one of the reasons why her death has affected the Washington political class so deeply. In a tribute to his departed colleague, Wolf Blitzer called her \u201ca very special person.\u201d On <em>CNN Newsroom<\/em>, Blitzer noted, \u201cWe 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 helped our viewers better appreciate what was going on, and that\u2019s why we will miss her so much.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Another of her CNN colleagues, Dana Bash, described her as \u201csomebody who told it straight,\u201d 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 \u201cbrought kindness and support,\u201d Bash said, not only intelligence and expertise. Another media observer remembered how, during political campaigns, she would bring extra food to events for exhausted reporters who could often be too hassled and harried along the campaign trail to grab proper meals. Washington, indeed, has lost one of its truly good ones.<\/p>\n<p><em>Daniel Ross Goodman is a <\/em>Washington Examiner <em>contributing writer and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School. His latest book, <\/em>Soloveitchik\u2019s Children: Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America<em>, was published last summer by the University of Alabama Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sudden death of Alice Stewart, a prominent political commentator and veteran media adviser, at 58, shocked Washington. Last seen on CNN, her body was discovered in Belle View, Virginia. 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