Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson speaks to the crowd as she launches her 2024 presidential campaign in Washington, Saturday, March 4, 2023. Jose Luis Magana/AP.

In her bid for the Democratic nomination in 2020, Williamson failed to gain traction in a crowded primary field. “The opponent is not a specific situation or circumstance,” Williamson said Saturday. [suspending her campaign](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/marianne-williamson-ends-2020-campaign/index.html), Williamson threw her [ support behind businessman Andrew Yang ](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/marianne-williamson-andrew-yang-endorsement-iowa/index.html)in the Iowa caucuses before [officially endorsing](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/marianne-williamson-bernie-sanders-2020/index.html) Vermont Sen. Her appearances on the debate stage, though, did garner attention. “Let the people get in there. [Nikki Haley](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/politics/nikki-haley-2024-announcement/index.html), the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations, and [Vivek Ramaswamy](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-gop-2024-campaign/index.html), a biotech and health care entrepreneur, have announced their own presidential bids to challenge the former president in the Republican primary. “I’m not naive about the forces which have no intention of allowing anyone into this conversation who does not align with their predetermined agenda.” [ laid off her campaign staff nationally ](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/politics/marianne-williamson-campaign-staff-2020/index.html)a week before dropping out of the race in early 2020. [pushed for](https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/primaries-caucuses/candidate/williamson) expansion of social safety net programs and reparations to the descendants of slaves. [President Donald Trump](https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/president-donald-trump-45) had harnessed a “dark psychic force of collectivized hatred” and vowed that her first act as president would be to call then-New Zealand Prime Minister [Jacinda Ardern](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/asia/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-not-seeking-reelection-intl-hnk/index.html) and say, “Girlfriend, you are so on,” in response to Ardern saying that she wanted to make her country the best place in the world to be a child. [an unsuccessful campaign in 2020](https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/politics/marianne-williamson-ends-2020-campaign/index.html). In a statement last month teasing her announcement, Williamson said she was motivated by “a realization of the Democratic Party’s shift away from the party of President Franklin Roosevelt” and “the economic injustices endured by millions of Americans due to the influence of corporate money on our political system.”

Self-help author Marianne Williamson, whose 2020 White House campaign featured more quirky calls for spiritual healing than actual voter support, ...

A Texas native who now lives in Beverly Hills, California, Williamson is the author of more than a dozen books and ran an unsuccessful independent congressional campaign in California in 2014. His political advisers have said they aren’t worried about the Democratic primary but that Biden is anxious to defeat Donald Trump again in the general election. Even if other Democrats follow Williamson into the race, the party is not planning to hold primary debates. Most people in the United States — and even most Democrats — say they don’t want him to run again, “We are upset about this country, we’re worried about this country,” Williamson told a crowd of more than 600 at a kickoff in the nation’s capital. Democrats and Republicans in New Hampshire have warned that if Biden skips the state’s unsanctioned primary and a rival wins it, that outcome could prove embarrassing for the sitting president — even if that challenger has no real shot of actually being the nominee.

Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 2020, officially launched her 2024 presidential campaign on ...

"I'm so glad that President Trump did not win the last election," Williamson said Saturday. "They have had their day," Williamson said of big pharmaceutical, agricultural and oil companies. "The system that is now saying I'm unserious, that I'm not credible or I'm a longshot is the very system that protects and maintains this idea that only those whose careers have been entrenched within the system that drove us into a ditch should possibly be qualified to lead us out of that ditch," she said. Her signature 2020 proposals included reparations for slavery and the creation of a Department of Peace, and she supported progressive policies like universal health care and free college. "The status quo, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else, will not disrupt itself," Williamson said as she announced her candidacy at Union Station in Washington, D.C. She said an epiphany led her to run for president in 2020.

Marianne Williamson officially launched her 2024 bid to run again for the Democratic nomination for the presidency on Saturday, pushing for the party to ...

“And I’m not putting myself through this again just to add to the conversation. She struggled to raise money in 2020 and needed to lay off her campaign staff and suspend her campaign before the first contest of the Democratic nominating process, the Iowa caucus. But many voters in polls have indicated they would prefer someone other than Biden to be the Democratic nominee, with some citing his age as a concern. She made the official [announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSa2UF8_kI) at a scheduled event at Union Station in Washington, D.C. She said at the time that she “didn’t want to get in the way” of a progressive candidate winning and endorsed Sen. “Since the election of 2016 it’s odd for anyone to think they can know who can win the presidency,” Williamson wrote. [What America's Thinking](https://thehill.com/hilltv/america/) [Rising](https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/) [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [See All](https://thehill.com) [2024 presidential election](https://thehill.com/tag/2024-presidential-election/) [Bernie Sanders](https://thehill.com/people/bernie-sanders/) [Biden](https://thehill.com/people/biden/) [Democratic primaries](https://thehill.com/tag/democratic-primaries/) [Joe Biden](https://thehill.com/tag/joe-biden/) [Marianne Williamson](https://thehill.com/tag/marianne-williamson/) [Marianne Williamson](https://thehill.com/people/marianne-williamson/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) Biden is already the oldest president that the United States has had at 80 years old. [said](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3881793-democrats-brush-off-marianne-williamsons-2024-primary-challenge/) after Williamson confirmed she planned to run that they did not make much of her candidacy, with one saying that he expects the White House and Democratic National Committee “will completely ignore” her run. But she is likely a long-shot candidate to win the Democratic nomination, just as she was in 2020. “I, as of today, am a candidate for the office of president of the United States,” she said.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson, whose 2020 White House campaign featured calls for spiritual healing, launched another bid for the presidency on ...

A Texas native who now lives in Beverly Hills, California, Williamson is the author of more than a dozen books and ran an unsuccessful independent congressional campaign in California in 2014. "We are upset about this country, we're worried about this country," Williamson told a crowd of more than 600 at a kickoff in the nation's capital. history, would be 86 at the end of a second term.

Williamson became the first Democrat to announce she will challenge President Joe Biden, who has yet to announce his candidacy for the 2024 presidential ...

She proposed creating a Department of Children and Youths and a Department of Peace, and she pushed for reparations for the descendants of African-American slaves. [MARIANNE WILLIAMSON LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN AGAINST BIDEN, VOWS TO FIGHT 'FORCES OF HATRED, INJUSTICE AND FEAR'](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-launches-campaign-against-biden-vows-fight-forces-hatred-injustice-fear) "Let’s be clear: Marianne Williamson is a joke," Mayer wrote. She said "we're still six inches away from it." She emphasized "six pillars for a season of moral repair," including economic justice. Biden is our nominee." "We know that this country is plagued by many challenges now, not the least of which is hatred and division, which is greater than any of us have experienced ... [poverty and despair](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/economy). [2020 Democratic presidential nomination](https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/2020-presidential-election), becomes the first Democrat with a national following to challenge the 80-year-old president. " There is no legitimate primary. [President Biden](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/joe-biden) has been one of the most revolutionary Presidents in recent history and has the full support of Democrats across America.

Self-help author becomes first Democrat to formally challenge Biden for the nomination.

“I am not naïve about these forces which have no intention of allowing anyone into this conversation who does not align with their predetermined agenda,” she said. “We are upset about this country, we’re worried about this country,” Williamson told a crowd of more than 600 at a kickoff in the nation’s capital. “It is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear.”

WASHINGTON — Self-help author Marianne Williamson, whose 2020 White House campaign featured more quirky calls for spiritual healing than actual voter ...

A Texas native who now lives in Beverly Hills, California, Williamson is the author of more than a dozen books and ran an unsuccessful independent congressional campaign in California in 2014. “But let me tell you something,” Williamson added. “I understand that, in their mind, only people who previously have been entrenched in the car that brought us into this ditch can possibly be considered qualified to bring us out of it.” I am not naïve about these forces which have no intention of allowing anyone into this conversation who does not align with their predetermined agenda,” she said. “We are upset about this country, we’re worried about this country,” Williamson told a crowd of more than 600 at a kickoff in the nation’s capital. That includes New Hampshire, which has threatened to defy a Biden-backed plan by the Democratic National Committee to have South Carolina lead off the nominating contests.

What she's saying: "We all owe President Biden a debt of gratitude for defeating President Trump in 2020," Williamson in a campaign video. "But with the things ...

- "But with the things that they're going to be throwing at us in 2024, we need to submit to the American people an agenda of fundamental economic reform, universal health care, tuition free colleges .... [President Biden's](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/joe-biden) reelection bid. [Politics & Policy](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy)

Kudos to New Age spiritualist Marianne Williamson for having the gumption to challenge President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, ...

Why not forgo a 2023 gubernatorial reelection bid that he’ll be hard-pressed to win and instead do the nation a favor by trying to bring his party back somewhere in the realms of moderation? Every reasonable Democratic leader knows he is both [too old](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/for-his-own-place-in-history-biden-should-forgo-reelection) and too unpopular. [should not be reelected](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/do-any-democrats-have-the-courage-to-challenge-biden). The American public deserves to have both parties put forth reasonable, responsible choices for president. Williamson, author and frequent guest of Oprah Winfrey, announced on Saturday her second run for the White House after having gotten approximately less than nowhere in her attempt in 2020. Where, pray tell, are the pragmatic Democrats courageous enough to offer Democrats a legitimate choice?

'I know how to disrupt': the two-time aspirant to the Democratic presidential nomination fleshes out her vision for the country.

“And I’m running as well.” “It’s called democracy,” she said. My qualification is that I know how to disrupt it,” “We must make a stand for such things as human rights. [describes herself](https://marianne.com/) as “a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles” for more than three decades. “The system that effectuates and perpetuates that kind of income and opportunity inequality is not changing itself …

Marianne Williamson said on ABC's "This Week" that she doesn't see her long-shot bid for the White House in 2024 as a challenge to President Joe Biden.

"But first, the Democratic Party needs to look in the mirror and heal itself.” They know that the president did not do well in New Hampshire,” Williamson said. She would not directly answer if she would support Biden, should he win the party’s nomination. And they know that he did very well in South Carolina. When asked if the president's age is an issue, Williamson told Karl “I’m not going there. “My qualification is not that I know how to perpetuate that system. “The system that effectuates and perpetuates that kind of income and opportunity inequality is not changing itself. military operations abroad, such as the wars in Iraq and Vietnam. At 80 years old, Biden is the oldest serving president in U.S. “I think it was the Associated Press [that] said you are the longest of long shots. [He] could also cancel all of the contracts with union-busting companies." My qualification is that I know how to disrupt it.

"The DNC should not be rigging this system. They don't even pretend anymore," Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said on ABC.

They know that the president did not do well in New Hampshire," Williamson said. This is the thing," Williamson said. "They know that New Hampshirites are very open to independent and more progressive voices." Karl asked Williamson if she would still be competing in the New Hampshire primary election, which she said she would. "The DNC should not be rigging this system. And I'm running as well," Williamson responded.