David Stewart

David Stewart is an American politician, journalist and political commentator who served as 48th President of the United States after the resignation of Kamala Harris. A member of the Republican Party, he served in many positions in his political career, including Speaker of the House, Comptroller of New York, Counselor to the President, and briefly in the administration of his successor as Special Advisor to the President. In 2023 he was the victim of an assassination attempt by a poison, because of this, he resigned on January 4th, 2024 due to health issues. He worked at CNN as a commentator for over 15 years non-consecutively, after his resignation he returned to work as a CNN contributor, specifically he was given his own newscast called The Oval Office with David Stewart & Eliza Buchanan, who he co-hosts with former Secretary of State under the Biden and Harris Administration, Eliza Buchanan. His wife Marriane Stewart is the current US Trade Representative, Former Governor of New York and long time Congresswoman. While his wife was Governor he was First Gentleman of New York.

Career
After graduating from University, Stewart started in a position as an editor for an editorial called The Polk. While there he served as one of their political correspondents, in 1997 when The Polk was given White House access, he became their White House correspondent. He eventually became the deputy editor-in-chief before he left to become a political pundit for the CNN in 2000. Stewart became one of the lone voices in support for the Republican Party during the the War in Iraq and George W. Bush’s Presidency. In 2001 Stewart was elected to the House of Representatives. Stewart volunteered in both of President Bush’s presidential campaigns, in his first campaign he served as the regional director of the campaign for the state of New York. He also volunteered when Bush was running for reelection in 2004, Stewart served as his Media Director, after the reelected he was considered to be a contender for a White House job, Vice President Cheney wanted to appoint him as White House Press Secretary, however Stewart went back to the House and continued being a Pundit and the matter never went any further. After the end of his second term in the House he began working full time at CNN until 2006 when he was hired by the Bush Administration to become White House Staff Secretary and Personal Aide to the President, in 2007 he was promoted to Counselor to the President. During the McCain campaign there were talks about making him White House Chief of Staff if McCain got elected.

House of Representatives
At the age of 29 Stewart became a member of the House of Representatives, taking office January 3rd, 2001. He was assigned to the House Committee on Ethics and the House Committee on Rules. He completed his first term in 2003 and was reelected in 2002, Stewart ran for reelection in 2004 but lost after his seat went blue to the democrats.

In the 2022 midterms Stewart was reelected to the House of Representatives and took office January 3rd, of 2023, for his third term. Stewart was elected as Speaker of the House in a Republican controlled chamber, while he was a more moderate republican, he was able to elected with the support of the moderates and the democrats, who worried that a pro-Trump candidate would come out on top. He was elected by a very slim majority, his opponent, Kevin McCarthy, got 206 votes, while Stewart got 229. Representative Majorie Taylor Greene called out Stewart for, “splitting the vote” between Republicans. Because of this, Stewart was ostracized from the Republican House Conference for a while and so were the 18 Republicans who voted for him. The House Republicans would split even more after Stewart’s endorsement of Gubernatorial Candidate for North Carolina, Levin Carlas, Carlas ended up winning the republican nomination despite projections that he would loose badly. Stewart’s perceived influence swayed more Republicans over to his side.

Stewart administrated the impeachment inquiry of Vice President Makaela Raffel after she was accused of committing perjury, obstruction of justice and bribery in order to get a corporate donor and ally to the Vice President, Chargin & Partners, an investment firm out of charges of fraud. When Raffel was running for Governor of California, Chargin donated 40 Million dollars to her campaign, later when she became Vice President, an unsolicited payment of 30 Million dollars into her account was made. Raffel was impeached by the House on May 18th, 2023, she resigned just 5 days later.

President of the United States
After Raffel’s resignation, President of the United States, Kamala Harris’ approval ratings fell to historic lows, Harris’ Senior Advisor, Matthew Stevens was arrested by the FBI for accepting bribes from Chargin & Partners, on May 25th Harris’ Chief of Staff, Amarya Koshma resigned after MSNBC broke the story that she met with two senior partners from Chargin. On June 2nd, 2023 Harris resigned and the Presidency passed to Stewart because there was no Vice President to pass it to.