Long-shot presidential candidate Marianne Williamson made the unusual move Wednesday of relaunching her campaign.
The author suspended her presidential campaign following poor performances in the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries.
After narrowly edging Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) for third place in the Michigan Democrat primary, Williamson unsuspended her campaign.
“As of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for the Presidency of the United States,” Williamson said in a video message posted to X.
WATCH:
#Unsuspended pic.twitter.com/7BEcIo3iij
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 28, 2024
NBC News reports:
Williamson, who won 4% of the Democratic primary vote in New Hampshire and 2% of the vote in South Carolina’s primary, has long been an advocate for Medicare for all and free tuition at public colleges. She announced the restart of her campaign after getting 3% of the vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary on Wednesday despite having already ended her White House bid, beating fellow presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who received 2.7 % of the primary vote with 95% of the expected votes counted.
Biden, meanwhile, received 81% of the Democratic primary vote in Michigan, while 13% chose “uncommitted” on the ballot.
Prior to the New Hampshire primary, Williamson suggested she believed Trump would win the upcoming general election.
“I do not have good feelings about what will happen in 2024, because 2024 is not going to be like 2020; 2024 is going to be like 2016,” she said at a town hall event in Portsmouth.
Just in: Marianne Williamson unsuspending her 2024 Democratic presidential campaign. pic.twitter.com/pgpGiVQcEL
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) February 28, 2024
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) February 28, 2024
Williamson trails Biden by approximately 70 points in national polling averages, so her chance of winning the Democrat Primary is essentially zero.
From The Guardian:
Williamson, who also ran in 2020, had suspended her campaign on 7 February, after failing to make an impact in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
“I hope future candidates will take what works for them, drinking from the well of information we prepared,” she said. “My team and I brought to the table some great ideas, and I will take pleasure when I see them live on in campaigns and candidates yet to be created.”
She changed her mind after Michigan. Citing economic difficulties faced by many Americans including medical debt and an insufficient minimum wage, she also quoted a bygone Republican president Abraham Lincoln.
“We the people basically don’t own this country right now. Abraham Lincoln said that people who died in the civil war for the union had died so that a government of the people, by the people and for the people would not perish from the earth. It’s perishing now on our watch.”
Promising to end “government of the corporations by the corporations”, and to achieve an “economic U-turn”, Williamson said America needed a response to Trump’s “dark vision” better than that offered by Biden.
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