Marianne Williamson drops long-shot 2024 presidential bid

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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.

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.

She
won
roughly
2%
of
the
vote
in
South
Carolina’s
Democratic
primary.

2024
was
Williamson’s
second
presidential
bid
after
another
failed
campaign
in
2020.

The
71-year-old
self-help
guru
campaigned
with
an
anti-establishment
tenor,
looking
to
“Disrupt
the
System,”
as
one
of
her
slogans
read.

Williamson
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
as
an
alternative
to
Biden
during
a
time
when
early
polling
showed
him
lagging
on
key
issues
like
the

economy
and
with
essential
demographics
like

Latino
voters.
The
president’s
early
low
numbers
and
other
concerns
about
his
age
stoked
fear
in
the
Democratic
Party,
leaving
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.

But
as
primary
season
kicked
off,
Williamson’s
enthusiasm
and
often
spiritual
message
did
not
translate
to
voter
support.

Biden
delivered
sweeping
victories,
squeezing
Williamson
even
farther
into
the
margins
of
the
field.

In
a
particularly
stark
case,
Biden
won
New
Hampshire
where
his
name
was
not
officially
on
the
ballot
and
where
fringe
candidates
like
Williamson
tend
to
do
well
due
to
the
large
undeclared
voter
population.
Williamson
secured
4%
of
the
vote
in
New
Hampshire.

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