In a 2020 interview with the Harvard Political Review, Alice Stewart revealed that she voted for Donald Trump even though she was not the biggest fan of some of his behavior, and she prided herself on offering a unique perspective as a Trump voter who was also willing to voice her disapproval over his actions when she felt that he deserved it. On more than one occasion, the sharp-tongued commentator eviscerated the former president. After Karen McDougal spoke to Anderson Cooper about her alleged affair with Trump, Stewart told former CNN host Don Lemon during a “CNN Tonight” appearance, “When you lie in bed with dogs, you get fleas.” Stewart brought up Trump’s messy love life again in 2022. “The Constitution is not like a spouse,” she said. “You can’t just get rid of it when it no longer suits your purposes.”
While she was capable of delivering some brutal blows to politicians behaving badly, many of Stewart’s colleagues remembered the Grady School of Journalism grad as someone who didn’t let her political views sour her relationships with coworkers who did not share them. “She was my favorite Republican,” CNN contributor Keith Boykin tweeted. “We disagreed on nearly every issue, but she was always civil and respectful.” New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi echoed this sentiment, writing, “She was proof that people with wildly different beliefs could not only be civil but could love one another.”
