Marianne Williamson 2024

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Marianne Williamson Is Back in the Race: 'We Must Respond'

Democratic presidential candidate returns to Election 2024 to take on Biden in primary

(Newser) - Three weeks after Marianne Williamson backed out of her long-shot bid to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, she's back in it. The author has announced she's "unsuspending" her campaign for the Oval Office, the day after she drew 3% of the vote to Biden'...

Marianne Williamson Suspends Her Campaign

Her longshot primary challenge to President Biden is over

(Newser) - Self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson on Wednesday announced the end of her longshot Democratic challenge to President Biden, the AP reports. The 71-year-old onetime spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey contemplated suspending her campaign last month after winning just 5,000 votes in New Hampshire's primary, writing that...

'Feeling Good About Where We Are:' Biden Cruises in SC

President easily wins Democrats' first official primary of the election year

(Newser) - President Biden scored an easy win in South Carolina's Democratic primary Saturday—voting that officially kicks off his party's nominating process. (Republicans don't vote in the state until later this month.) The AP called the race for Biden as soon as polls closed at 7pm Eastern...

Biden Wins New Hampshire on Write-In Votes

President's name wasn't actually on the ballot

(Newser) - The showdown between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley in New Hampshire on Tuesday got most of the attention— Trump won —but Democrats also had a primary. It was, however, a little unusual. President Biden will win based on write-in votes, projects the AP . The president's name wasn't...

Marianne Williamson Has Beef With DNC

'Politics is dirty' but 'I've never seen anything like this,' candidate says in leaked audio

(Newser) - Marianne Williamson's presidential campaign is "desperate for cash," as she told volunteers during a two-hour Zoom call leaked Thursday, per Politico . "I have put my own money in, and I don't have the money to continue putting it in at the level I have,"...

Marianne Williamson Responds to 'Hit Piece'

'If I've been a tough boss lady, if I have some lessons to learn ... then I hope that I will learn them'

(Newser) - Marianne Williamson has given a lengthier response to Thursday's Politico article detailing what former campaign staffers refer to as the spiritual guru's abusive behavior—and Williamson insists the whole thing is just a "distraction technique." In an interview with a BBC podcast, Williamson acknowledged she's...

Former Campaign Workers Say Williamson Was 'Terrifying'

'It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage'

(Newser) - People who worked on Marianne Williamson's 2020 presidential campaign say people considering joining the team for her 2024 run should be aware that the self-help author's private behavior is very different from her public persona. Politico reports that it spoke to a dozen former staffers who described Williamson...

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