Democratic Presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson speaks at the California Democratic Party 2019 Fall Endorsing Convention in Long Beach, California on November 16, 2019.
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Author Marianne Williamson announced her exit from the 2024 presidential race.
“As of today we are suspending our campaign,” she wrote Wednesday evening in a message to supporters.
“While the level of our failure is obvious to all, a level of success is real nonetheless,” she wrote. “We articulated deeper, more authentic truths than those regularly acknowledged by the political establishment.”
Williamson was one of few Democratic challengers to incumbent President Joe Biden, along with House Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. She and Phillips both consistently polled with single-digit margins.
Williamson won roughly 2% of the vote in South Carolina’s Democratic primary. This was her second presidential bid, after a failed campaign in 2020.
The self-help guru campaigned with an anti-establishment tenor, looking to “Disrupt the System,” according to one of her slogans.
Williamson, 71, also said that she was running to “course-correct” the damage of former President Donald Trump and prevent him from securing a second term.
But the Texas native mainly entered the race to be an alternative to Biden, during a time when early polling showed the president lagging on key issues like the economy and losing support among core Democratic voting blocs, like Latino voters.
Biden’s perceived weak spots created an opportunity for candidates like Williamson and Phillips to campaign primarily as Biden substitutes.
“Biden will not win. I will,” Williamson wrote in an X post hours before the results of the Nevada Democratic primary on Tuesday.
But as primary season kicked off, Williamson’s enthusiasm and often spiritual message did not resonate with voters.
Biden clinched victories in New Hampshire as a write-in candidate, and in South Carolina’s primary, squeezing Williamson even farther into…
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