Political reporter Hanna Trudo is contemplating operating for Congress in New Hampshire as a Democrat. If she did make the leap, it will make her the newest mainstream media determine to hunt workplace on the Democratic ticket.
Listed here are 5 different mainstream media figures who campaigned as Democrats for workplace, or at the very least made an try.
John Avlon
CNN political analyst John Avlon introduced final 12 months that he would go away the community to defeat Donald Trump and “his MAGA minions” by operating for Congress as a Democrat in New York’s First Congressional District in Lengthy Island.
“Right now, our democracy is in danger. This election is not a drill,” Avlon warned on the time.
Former CNN analyst John Avlon made a failed run for Congress in 2024.
Whereas he went on to seize the Democratic nomination, he misplaced the final election to Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., by greater than 10 factors.
Avlon, the previous editor of the liberal Every day Beast, was recognized for internet hosting a “Reality Check” section on CNN that skewed closely to the left.
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera made an ill-fated Democratic main problem in 2020 to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in New York’s 14th Congressional District.
Operating as a extra average candidate who opposed the Inexperienced New Deal and common well being care, she was routed by the far-left Ocasio-Cortez within the main, getting simply 18.2 % of the vote.
Caruso-Cabrera spent greater than 20 years with CNBC, serving because the monetary community’s chief monetary correspondent in addition to co-anchor of “Power Lunch.” She additionally misplaced her bid for the Democratic nomination for New York comptroller in 2021.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera (proper) didn’t oust Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her Democratic main problem in 2020.
Ocasio-Cortez upset longtime Rep. Joe Crowley within the Democratic main in 2018 earlier than cruising to victory within the deep-blue district that November. She’s now one of many leaders of the Democratic Occasion and is even rumored as a 2028 presidential candidate regardless of being solely 35.
Nicholas Kristof
Longtime New York Occasions columnist Nicholas Kristof briefly left the newspaper in 2021 after a 37-year run to run for Oregon governor on the Democratic ticket.
“I am confident we can do better as a state. I do think that’s going to require vision and leadership and sending a different kind of leader to Salem,” he informed an area outlet on the time.
Sadly for him, his New York ties wound up haunting his candidacy.
Kristof was deemed ineligible early in 2022 after the state Supreme Court docket dominated he did not meet Oregon’s three-year residency retirement. Kristof had voted in New York in 2020, calling his capability to fulfill the requirement into query earlier than the Supreme Court docket’s choice ensured he would not make the poll.
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New York Occasions columnist Nicholas Kristof. (Picture by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photographs)
Kristof returned to the Occasions later in 2022 and has been there ever since.
Matthew Dowd
Former ABC Information political analyst Matthew Dowd lengthy claimed to be an impartial, however the masks got here off formally in 2021 when he briefly ran for Texas lieutenant governor as a Democrat.
Dowd, a straight, White, male Christian, wrote in 2018 that straight, White, male Christians shouldn’t pursue energy with the intention to make area for minorities.
“I would humbly suggest that we as White male Christians take it upon ourselves to step back and give more people who don’t look like us access to the levers of power,” he wrote, including, “As a White male Christian in America, I am part of a dwindling subset that has held the levers of power politically and economically in nearly every field for the entire history of the United States.”
Dowd’s run in an try and oust Republican Dan Patrick did not final lengthy. He dropped out after lower than three months, saying sufficient various candidates had emerged on the Democratic aspect that he ought to step apart. Democrat Mike Collier finally misplaced the race by 10 factors to Patrick.
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Former ABC Information analyst Matthew Dowd. (Picture by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Disney Normal Leisure Content material by way of Getty Photographs)
Dowd spent 13 years at ABC Information as a political analyst earlier than leaving in early 2021, the place his “independent” claims have been usually criticized given his apparent choice for Democrats. Dowd, who served as chief strategist for George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election, left the Republican Occasion throughout Bush’s second time period over his disillusionment with the GOP.
Dylan Ratigan
Dylan Ratigan, a former CNBC journalist who went on to host an eponymous present for MSNBC, mounted a run for the Democratic nomination in New York’s twenty first Congressional District in 2018.
Ratigan did not come shut, ending far behind winner Tedra Cobb, who went on to lose the final election to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
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In fact, going from a journalism background to a political marketing campaign is not solely the area of Democrats.
Republican Kari Lake, who now serves within the Trump administration, was a information anchor in Phoenix earlier than making unsuccessful runs in Arizona for governor and U.S. Senate in 2022 and 2024.
