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Fox News
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
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 announced last year that he would leave the network 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 election is not a drill," Avlon warned at the time. While he went on to capture the Democratic nomination, he lost the general election to Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., by more than 10 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 2020 to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in New York's 14th Congressional District. Running as a more moderate candidate who opposed the Green New Deal and universal health care, she was routed by the far-left Ocasio-Cortez in the primary, getting just 18.2 percent of the vote. Caruso-Cabrera spent more than 20 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 2021. Ocasio-Cortez upset longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary in 2018 before cruising to victory in the deep-blue district that November. She's now one of the leaders of the Democratic Party and is even rumored as a 2028 presidential candidate despite being only 35. Longtime New York Times 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 told a local outlet at the time. Unfortunately for him, his New York ties wound up haunting his candidacy. Kristof was deemed ineligible early in 2022 after the state Supreme Court ruled he didn't meet Oregon's three-year residency retirement. Kristof had voted in New York in 2020, calling his ability to meet the requirement into question before the Supreme Court's decision ensured he wouldn't make the ballot. Kristof returned to the Times later in 2022 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 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 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 10 points to Patrick. Dowd spent 13 years at ABC News as a political analyst before leaving in early 2021, where his "independent" claims were often criticized given his obvious preference for Democrats. Dowd, who served as chief strategist for George W. Bush's 2004 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 21st Congressional District in 2018. Ratigan didn't come close, finishing far behind winner Tedra Cobb, who went on to lose the general election to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. Of course, 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 2022 and 2024.
Daily Mail
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Rising Democrat star is blasted as a hypocrite after truth about her lifestyle emerges that's VERY different to her policies
A Democrat exploring a run for Congress in New Hampshire has already hit snags with her political plans after details of her seemingly luxurious life have leaked online. Hanna Trudo, a former journalist for the Daily Beast, Politico and the Hill, issued a memo in early May outlining her interest in running for Congress in New Hampshire's first Congressional district after moving back to her home state. She described her upbringing in New Hampshire as part of a 'working class' home, raised by a single mother. 'As a New Hampshire girl who grew up working class, I'm demanding more from our Democrats,' she wrote on social media in early May. Trudo said she was tired of working as a journalist and writing the same stories about Democrats failing the working class in Washington, D.C. 'Like many families, we received heating assistance at times to get through our freezing winters. While my mom was not able to go to college or buy a home due to the high cost of living, she worked tirelessly as a public school Title 1 reading aide,' Trudo wrote in her memo shared with reporters. She argued that her experience as a journalist was proof she could serve the people of New Hampshire effectively. 'I'm simply writing with the same fire I've spit for the past decade: Democrats must be better,' the memo read. Hanna Trudo is weighing a run for Congress in New Hampshire Trudo said she was inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders' failed campaign for president to explore a run for office. 'New blood matters alongside a working class agenda,' she added. Trudo's announcement drew mockery from conservative media, as her candidacy was evidence of how many journalists in D.C. were actually partisan Democrats. But there was more to Trudo's profile than she revealed on her campaign memo. When the hosts of the Ruthless podcast, a show hosted by political operatives, featured Trudo in a segment, she reached out on social media to ask them for a potential interview. 'Let's talk. My ties to broken policies and promises that fail the working class go well beyond what I've covered as a journalist. I've lived it. Would love to debate and discuss, DMs open,' she wrote publicly. The hosts Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook, accepted her offer to appear on the show, but they say she soon ghosted producers for two weeks when they tried to contact her. In response, the show began investigating her background and started leaking a trail of public information, revealing her luxurious public life behind the scenes. The team discovered a photo of Trudo's profile on Luxy, an exclusive dating website profile for millionaires and 'outstanding and sophisticated singles.' 'We make sure only sophisticated, successful and people of quality join our platform,' the website read, noting that members would need a 'verified annual income' of more than $200,000,' the website reads noting that 'only sophisticated successful people of quality' are allowed on their platform. The profile with her name and photo on it describes her as a 'senior political correspondent, splitting my time between DC (weekdays), NYC, & Miami (for fun),' 'Have traveled a lot for career and play, crave more. Big heart. Work horse over show pony. Enjoy cooking, reading, & history. Avid observer of people. Curious, active mind,' the profile reads. Trudo also posted an image of her social media of an expensive Ferrari, offering it up for sale. Some of the photos on her social media profile were deleted after they were made public. The hosts of the program still want Trudo to join the show to answer questions about her political campaign, but for now they plan to exact revenge for the no-show appearance. 'Ruthless has identified additional questions about her story that The Variety Progrum will continue to discuss in upcoming episodes,' podcast co-host John Ashbrook told the Daily Mail. Their investigative team found 'a lot more' details about Trudo's life that they planned to share in the future, they said. 'You don't f**k with the Ruthless variety progrum,' host Josh Holmes said during the show.
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Rising Democrat star blasted as hypocrite for 'hiding' millionaire lifestyle, Ferrari pics from social media
A Democrat exploring a run for Congress in New Hampshire has already hit snags with her political plans after details of her seemingly luxurious life have leaked online. Hanna Trudo, a former journalist for the Daily Beast, Politico and the Hill, issued a memo in early May outlining her interest in running for Congress in New Hampshire's first Congressional district after moving back to her home state. She described her upbringing in New Hampshire as part of a 'working class' home, raised by a single mother. 'As a New Hampshire girl who grew up working class, I'm demanding more from our Democrats,' she wrote on social media in early May. Trudo said she was tired of working as a journalist and writing the same stories about Democrats failing the working class in Washington, D.C. 'Like many families, we received heating assistance at times to get through our freezing winters. While my mom was not able to go to college or buy a home due to the high cost of living, she worked tirelessly as a public school Title 1 reading aide,' Trudo wrote in her memo shared with reporters. She argued that her experience as a journalist was proof she could serve the people of New Hampshire effectively. 'I'm simply writing with the same fire I've spit for the past decade: Democrats must be better,' the memo read. Trudo said she was inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders' failed campaign for president to explore a run for office. 'New blood matters alongside a working class agenda,' she added. Trudo's announcement drew mockery from conservative media, as her candidacy was evidence of how many journalists in D.C. were actually partisan Democrats. But there was more to Trudo's profile than she revealed on her campaign memo. When the hosts of the Ruthless podcast, a show hosted by political operatives, featured Trudo in a segment, she reached out on social media to ask them for a potential interview. 'Let's talk. My ties to broken policies and promises that fail the working class go well beyond what I've covered as a journalist. I've lived it. Would love to debate and discuss, DMs open,' she wrote publicly. The hosts Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook, accepted her offer to appear on the show, but they say she soon ghosted producers for two weeks when they tried to contact her. In response, the show began investigating her background and started leaking a trail of public information, revealing her luxurious public life behind the scenes. The team discovered a photo of Trudo's profile on Luxy, an exclusive dating website profile for millionaires and 'outstanding and sophisticated singles.' 'We make sure only sophisticated, successful and people of quality join our platform,' the website read, noting that members would need a 'verified annual income' of more than $200,000,' the website reads noting that 'only sophisticated successful people of quality' are allowed on their platform. The profile with her name and photo on it describes her as a 'senior political correspondent, splitting my time between DC (weekdays), NYC, & Miami (for fun),' 'Have traveled a lot for career and play, crave more. Big heart. Work horse over show pony. Enjoy cooking, reading, & history. Avid observer of people. Curious, active mind,' the profile reads. Trudo also posted an image of her social media of an expensive Ferrari, offering it up for sale. Some of the photos on her social media profile were deleted after they were made public. The hosts of the program still want Trudo to join the show to answer questions about her political campaign, but for now they plan to exact revenge for the no-show appearance. 'Ruthless has identified additional questions about her story that The Variety Progrum will continue to discuss in upcoming episodes,' podcast co-host John Ashbrook told the Daily Mail. Their investigative team found 'a lot more' details about Trudo's life that they planned to share in the future, they said. 'You don't f**k with the Ruthless variety progrum,' host Josh Holmes said during the show.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Journalist turned potential House candidate says fellow Democrats 'keep losing' by failing working class
EXCLUSIVE – A seasoned reporter and self-described lifelong Democrat was so fed up by her party's failures with the working class that she's considering jumping into the fray herself. Hanna Trudo, a former reporter for The Hill who's also made stops at such sites as The Daily Beast, Wired, The New Republic and Politico, is mulling a run for the First Congressional District in her home state of New Hampshire. The seat, currently occupied by Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., is opening up next year as Pappas runs for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Trudo, a fourth-generation, millennial New Hampshire native, has reported extensively on the Democratic Party's left flank during her journalism career. And to hear her put it, she's gotten tired of them not delivering for a base of voters that started flocking to President Donald Trump over the past decade. "I've been a lifelong Democrat, but being from New Hampshire, from a working-class family, a lot of the issues that I've reported on over the years in terms of the progressive wing of the party, and even the centrists and the moderates, it's oftentimes a failure in my view to address the needs of working-class people," she told Fox News Digital. "And so when we wonder why Democrats keep losing, to me, the answers are sort of obvious. When you're not able to deliver on what people are asking you to deliver on, you lose." Bernie Sanders Denies He And Aoc Are Trying To Start Third Party, Says Democrats 'Lack A Vision Of The Future' Trudo, who's been in journalism since 2012, said she was considering leaving the profession even before Trump was re-elected last year. The president's win, buoyed by his continued strength with working-class voters flocking to Republicans, crystallized to Democrats like Trudo that her party's leadership had become hopelessly out of touch. Read On The Fox News App "There's a big disconnect from the D.C. punditry that I've seen and observed up close, and the strategist and the consultant class and the donor class, to what actual Democrats, working-class people, of all parties, frankly, what they want," she said. Trudo is the latest mainstream media figure who's gotten wrapped up in Democratic Party politics. CNN's John Avlon lost his bid for Congress as a Democrat in New York in 2024, and ex-ABC News analyst Matthew Dowd launched an ill-fated campaign for Lieutenant Governor as a Democrat in Texas in 2021. Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran an unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2020, and President Barack Obama's second press secretary was longtime Time Magazine editor Jay Carney. Last year, former NPR editor Uri Berliner revealed he found in 2021 that registered Democrats outnumbered registered Republicans 87 to zero in the outlet's Washington office. "I think we're kidding ourselves if we don't come to the table with our own biases," Trudo said about being a journalist with strong political opinions. "My bias has always been not necessarily towards Democrats, but towards the working-class issues, which Democrats, in terms of what I've covered, have been the ones talking about these things as long as I've been in journalism. So to me, it's always been sort of prioritizing that." Ex-sanders Campaign Advisor Knocks Former Boss For Catering To White Liberals With Aoc Anti-oligarchy Tour Asked by Fox News Digital if Americans concerned about liberal media bias had a point, Trudo said it was a good question. "I've debated it a lot over the years," she said. "I do think we have to be really careful. And not so much left versus right. I do think we have to be on the side of truth. And maybe that sounds cliché, but I genuinely believe that. I think we have to be able to call out things as true, period." Trudo, an admirer of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called him the Democratic Party's current leader last month. She noted his and Ocasio-Cortez's headline-grabbing "Fighting Oligarchy" tour is the kind of proactive politics that's capturing the angry mood of the country. However, Trudo, who has no set timeline for when she'll decide about running for Congress, bristled at the "Democratic socialist" label for herself, saying she prefers "working-class Democrat" who embraces economic populism. Sanders won the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries in New Hampshire, the former in a landslide over Hillary Clinton that served as notice that his far-left populism resonated with the grassroots. The state, which has one of the country's highest-percentage White populations, is known for its fiscal conservatism and social liberalism that can make it difficult to pigeon-hole politically. Four Months Into Trump's Second Term, Democrats Remain Deeply Pessimistic About Their Party Trump lost New Hampshire all three times he ran for the White House, and it sports two Democratic U.S. Senators, but the state's current governor is Republican Kelly Ayotte and the GOP controls the legislature. "I think in New Hampshire in particular, there's sort of this disconnect between the leaders that we elect within the party and the actual mood of the people," Trudo said. "It's always kind of interesting to see this pull towards the middle or towards the centrist approach in a state whose motto is quite literally 'Live Free or Die.'" Trudo said she's worried most about social programs like Medicaid and Social Security being under attack by Republicans and wants Democrats to pursue economic populism to regain credibility with voters. "They hear platitudes," she said. "They hear working across the aisle… I've covered Congress, I've covered Democrats for 10 years professionally. So I'm very well aware of the sort of electoral calculations that come into play when we talk about these kinds of things. But I think it's going to take someone who's not beholden to the inter-party dialog, because so often that has failed. It's definitely failed people here." As she mulls jumping into the race officially, Democrats are going through a wrenching period as reports of a White House cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline in office dominate headlines. Meanwhile, Trump is more accessible to the media than ever, while also antagonizing the press at every opportunity. While critical of Trump over his anti-media rhetoric, Trudo said she applauds accessibility, and she'll talk to anybody to get her message out, something she feels her fellow Democrats have been too scared to do. "I think we see a big part of the problem with Democrats is that closed-off mentality," she told Fox News Digital. "People go in very rehearsed to interviews. They have specific sound bites that they want to get their point across. They don't want to say anything controversial or off the cuff. And it's alienated a lot of people in the party." A day after she spoke with Fox News Digital, the conservative Ruthless Podcast accused Trudo of "ghosting" them on an interview after she'd offered in an X post on May 5 to speak to the hosts. The show's hosts said they reached out multiple times after her public offer to come on the program, and she ignored them. "Like most politicians, she's saying one thing and doing another. We have many questions and plan to keep asking until the truth is revealed," Ruthless co-host John Ashbrook told Fox News Digital. Trudo didn't immediately respond to a request for additional article source: Journalist turned potential House candidate says fellow Democrats 'keep losing' by failing working class
Fox News
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Journalist turned potential House candidate says fellow Democrats 'keep losing' by failing working class
EXCLUSIVE – A seasoned reporter and self-described lifelong Democrat was so fed up by her party's failures with the working class that she's considering jumping into the fray herself. Hanna Trudo, a former reporter for The Hill who's also made stops at such sites as The Daily Beast, Wired, The New Republic and Politico, is mulling a run for the First Congressional District in her home state of New Hampshire. The seat, currently occupied by Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., is opening up next year as Pappas runs for U.S. Senate to replace outgoing Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Trudo, a fourth-generation, millennial New Hampshire native, has reported extensively on the Democratic Party's left flank during her journalism career. And to hear her put it, she's gotten tired of them not delivering for a base of voters that started flocking to President Donald Trump over the past decade. "I've been a lifelong Democrat, but being from New Hampshire, from a working-class family, a lot of the issues that I've reported on over the years in terms of the progressive wing of the party, and even the centrists and the moderates, it's oftentimes a failure in my view to address the needs of working-class people," she told Fox News Digital. "And so when we wonder why Democrats keep losing, to me, the answers are sort of obvious. When you're not able to deliver on what people are asking you to deliver on, you lose." Trudo, who's been in journalism since 2012, said she was considering leaving the profession even before Trump was re-elected last year. The president's win, buoyed by his continued strength with working-class voters flocking to Republicans, crystallized to Democrats like Trudo that her party's leadership had become hopelessly out of touch. "There's a big disconnect from the D.C. punditry that I've seen and observed up close, and the strategist and the consultant class and the donor class, to what actual Democrats, working-class people, of all parties, frankly, what they want," she said. Trudo is the latest mainstream media figure who's gotten wrapped up in Democratic Party politics. CNN's John Avlon lost his bid for Congress as a Democrat in New York in 2024, and ex-ABC News analyst Matthew Dowd launched an ill-fated campaign for Lieutenant Governor as a Democrat in Texas in 2021. Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ran an unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2020, and President Barack Obama's second press secretary was longtime Time Magazine editor Jay Carney. Last year, former NPR editor Uri Berliner revealed he found in 2021 that registered Democrats outnumbered registered Republicans 87 to zero in the outlet's Washington office. "I think we're kidding ourselves if we don't come to the table with our own biases," Trudo said about being a journalist with strong political opinions. "My bias has always been not necessarily towards Democrats, but towards the working-class issues, which Democrats, in terms of what I've covered, have been the ones talking about these things as long as I've been in journalism. So to me, it's always been sort of prioritizing that." Asked by Fox News Digital if Americans concerned about liberal media bias had a point, Trudo said it was a good question. "I've debated it a lot over the years," she said. "I do think we have to be really careful. And not so much left versus right. I do think we have to be on the side of truth. And maybe that sounds cliché, but I genuinely believe that. I think we have to be able to call out things as true, period." Trudo, an admirer of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called him the Democratic Party's current leader last month. She noted his and Ocasio-Cortez's headline-grabbing "Fighting Oligarchy" tour is the kind of proactive politics that's capturing the angry mood of the country. However, Trudo, who has no set timeline for when she'll decide about running for Congress, bristled at the "Democratic socialist" label for herself, saying she prefers "working-class Democrat" who embraces economic populism. Sanders won the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries in New Hampshire, the former in a landslide over Hillary Clinton that served as notice that his far-left populism resonated with the grassroots. The state, which has one of the country's highest-percentage White populations, is known for its fiscal conservatism and social liberalism that can make it difficult to pigeon-hole politically. Trump lost New Hampshire all three times he ran for the White House, and it sports two Democratic U.S. Senators, but the state's current governor is Republican Kelly Ayotte and the GOP controls the legislature. "I think in New Hampshire in particular, there's sort of this disconnect between the leaders that we elect within the party and the actual mood of the people," Trudo said. "It's always kind of interesting to see this pull towards the middle or towards the centrist approach in a state whose motto is quite literally 'Live Free or Die.'" Trudo said she's worried most about social programs like Medicaid and Social Security being under attack by Republicans and wants Democrats to pursue economic populism to regain credibility with voters. "They hear platitudes," she said. "They hear working across the aisle… I've covered Congress, I've covered Democrats for 10 years professionally. So I'm very well aware of the sort of electoral calculations that come into play when we talk about these kinds of things. But I think it's going to take someone who's not beholden to the inter-party dialog, because so often that has failed. It's definitely failed people here." As she mulls jumping into the race officially, Democrats are going through a wrenching period as reports of a White House cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline in office dominate headlines. Meanwhile, Trump is more accessible to the media than ever, while also antagonizing the press at every opportunity. While critical of Trump over his anti-media rhetoric, Trudo said she applauds accessibility, and she'll talk to anybody to get her message out, something she feels her fellow Democrats have been too scared to do. "I think we see a big part of the problem with Democrats is that closed-off mentality," she told Fox News Digital. "People go in very rehearsed to interviews. They have specific sound bites that they want to get their point across. They don't want to say anything controversial or off the cuff. And it's alienated a lot of people in the party." A day after she spoke with Fox News Digital, the conservative Ruthless Podcast accused Trudo of "ghosting" them on an interview after she'd offered in an X post on May 5 to speak to the hosts. The show's hosts said they reached out multiple times after her public offer to come on the program, and she ignored them. "Like most politicians, she's saying one thing and doing another. We have many questions and plan to keep asking until the truth is revealed," Ruthless co-host John Ashbrook told Fox News Digital. Trudo didn't immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
