Five mainstream media figures who ran for office as Democrats
Political reporter Hanna Trudo is considering running for Congress in New Hampshire as a Democrat If she did take the plunge it would make her the latest mainstream media figure to seek office on the Democratic ticket Here are five other mainstream media figures who campaigned as Democrats for office or at least made an attempt CNN political analyst John Avlon released last year that he would leave the setup to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA minions by running for Congress as a Democrat in New York's First Congressional District in Long Island Right now our democracy is in danger This voting is not a drill Avlon warned at the time JOURNALIST TURNED PROMISING HOUSE CANDIDATE SAYS FELLOW DEMOCRATS 'KEEP LOSING' BY FAILING WORKING CLASSWhile he went on to capture the Democratic nomination he lost the general electoral contest to Rep Nick LaLota R-N Y by more than points Avlon the former editor of the liberal Daily Beast was known for hosting a Reality Check segment on CNN that skewed heavily to the left Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera made an ill-fated Democratic primary challenge in to Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N Y in New York's th Congressional District Running as a more moderate candidate who opposed the Green New Deal and universal strength care she was routed by the far-left Ocasio-Cortez in the primary getting just percent of the vote Caruso-Cabrera spent more than years with CNBC serving as the financial network's chief financial correspondent as well as co-anchor of Power Lunch She also lost her bid for the Democratic nomination for New York comptroller in AOC S CONSTITUENTS WEIGH IN ON PRESIDENTIAL RUN RECALL HER STUNNING POLITICAL UPSETOcasio-Cortez upset longtime Rep Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary in before cruising to triumph in the deep-blue district that November She's now one of the leaders of the Democratic Party and is even rumored as a presidential candidate despite being only Longtime New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof briefly left the newspaper in after a -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 narrated a local outlet at the time Unfortunately for him his New York ties wound up haunting his candidacy Kristof was deemed ineligible early in after the state Supreme Court ruled he didn't meet Oregon's three-year residency retirement Kristof had voted in New York in calling his ability to meet the requirement into question before the Supreme Court's decision ensured he wouldn't make the ballot TRUMP SURPRISES -YEAR-OLD WWII VETERAN WITH BIRTHDAY MESSAGE AFTER VIRAL TIKTOK INVITEKristof returned to the Times later in and has been there ever since Former ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd long claimed to be an independent but the mask came off officially in when he briefly ran for Texas lieutenant governor as a Democrat Dowd a straight White male Christian wrote in that straight White male Christians should not pursue power in order to make space 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 adding 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 attempt to oust Republican Dan Patrick didn't last long He dropped out after less than three months saying enough diverse candidates had emerged on the Democratic side that he should step aside Democrat Mike Collier ultimately lost the race by points to Patrick TRUMP SAYS COMEY KNEW 'ASSASSINATION' MEANING BEHIND DELETED SOCIAL MEDIA POSTDowd spent years at ABC News as a political analyst before leaving in early where his independent indicates were often criticized given his obvious preference for Democrats Dowd who served as chief strategist for George W Bush's re-election left the Republican Party during Bush's second term over his disillusionment with the GOP Dylan Ratigan a former CNBC journalist who went on to host an eponymous show for MSNBC mounted a run for the Democratic nomination in New York's st Congressional District in Ratigan didn't come close finishing far behind winner Tedra Cobb who went on to lose the general voting to Rep Elise Stefanik R-N Y Of discipline going from a journalism background to a political campaign isn't solely the domain of Democrats Republican Kari Lake who now serves in the Trump administration was a news anchor in Phoenix before making unsuccessful runs in Arizona for governor and U S Senate in and
