Nancy Lee Grahn: Is Alexis ready for what politics does to people on General Hospital?

On General Hospital, Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) stood in her office and said yes to something that could change her life again. Laura (Genie Francis) wants her to step into Drew’s (Cameron Mathison) congressional seat in Port Charles, and after a long talk with Molly (Kristen Vaganos) and Suzanne (Jen Ray), Alexis agreed to run.

General Hospital’s Drew was a good guy once

Alexis let Drew have it on General Hospital. | Image Source: ABC

Alexis did not sugarcoat the reasons she decided to get into politics. She said that Drew used to be a good guy, citing his service as a Navy SEAL, and speculated that politics turned him into a psychopath. That was not gossip. That was a warning wrapped in observation.

She knows how quickly ideals can bend. She watched Drew shift from decorated hero to someone unrecognizable. Politics didn’t just damage him; it revealed his true nature in devious detail.

The question now is whether Alexis believes she’s built differently. She is sharp, disciplined, and used to a courtroom. However, Washington is not a courtroom, but a grinder. And grinders don’t care about good intentions, no matter how noble.

General Hospital, her past is not a footnote

General Hospital's Laura and Alexis. | Image Source: ABC

Alexis said it plainly. All her past transgressions would be dragged into the light, and that was not fair to Scout (Cosette Abinante) or any of her girls. She worried the headlines would weaponize every mistake she ever made.

And there’s plenty to weaponize. She obstructed justice when she threw a gun into the river to protect Kristina (Kate Mansi). She helped Ava (Maura West) hold Ric (Rick Hearst) captive in her basement. She covered up Kristina’s brake tampering. She crossed lines in court to shield Willow (Katelyn MacMullen). And that’s just recently. That doesn’t even include her older sins, the DUI spiral, the hit-and-run that killed Kiefer Bauer (Christian Alexander), and tossing Luis Alcazar (Ted King) off a building, just to name a few.

Molly reframed it as resilience. Show Scout how you survive adversity. That sounds noble. But Alexis has spent her life cleaning up other people’s damage and her own. Running for Congress might feel like redemption. It might also be ego. Or defiance. Or a need to prove she cannot be hollowed out the way Drew was. (Could Alexis have Willow legally locked up?)