Failed presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson introduced Thursday that she plans to run for chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee.
Williamson, 72, is greatest recognized for her unconventional, long-shot presidential campaigns in 2020 and 2024, each of which ended together with her dropping out early. Previous to that, she penned a sequence of self-help books and ran as an unbiased for a congressional seat in California.
“I feel that I can help transform the party, reinvent the party, because the politics of the past will not be enough to take on the politics of the present and the future,” Williamson mentioned in a YouTube video posted Thursday.
The race for DNC chair was already crowded earlier than Williamson threw her hat within the ring to probably exchange outgoing chief Jaime Harrison. Different candidates embrace ex-Maryland governor and presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, New York state senator James Skoufis, Minnesota Democratic Social gathering Chair Ken Martin and Wisconsin Democratic Social gathering Chair Ben Wikler.
Williamson claimed that her historical past of speaking to Democratic voters throughout the nation would assist her lead the occasion by way of one other Donald Trump presidency.
“I’ve seen how much pain there is out there,” she mentioned within the video. “I’ve been up close and personal with people who didn’t have health care, who couldn’t survive on just one job, who were so depressed about so many of the conditions in their lives.”
Throughout her presidential campaigns, Williamson was greatest recognized for odd statements. In 2019, she mentioned “a creative use of the mind” led to a hurricane turning away from land. At a 2020 debate, she mentioned Trump’s hate can be defeated as a result of “only love can cast that out.”
Shortly after she introduced a second candidacy in 2023, a number of staffers spoke about her tyrannical habits and “dehumanizing” abuse through the prior marketing campaign. Tales included her throwing a cellphone at a staffer and pounding so closely on a automobile door that she needed to go to the hospital. Williamson denied lots of the tales.
