Marianne Williamson enters the race for DNC chair: We need to 'create the energy' to counter Trump

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Source: The Independent

Thursday 26 December 2024 17:34 GMT


The race to lead the Democratic Party in the wake of Kamala Harris’s election defeat expanded on Thursday as author and two-time candidate Marianne Williamson announced that she was seeking the role.

Williamson is a long-shot candidate for the job and enters an already crowded field as the Democratic Party faces an internal debate about its future. Harris’s defeat in swing states across the board led to Donald Trump’s first popular vote victory, a crushing blow for the Democrats who also saw two incumbent senators unseated, throwing total control of the legislative and executive branches into Republican control.

Williamson’s two runs for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and 2024 both ended in defeat. But her first run, coupled with an energetic campaign and media presence, including on the debate stage, earned Williamson fans in progressive circles across the country. That was evident in 2024 when, despite the Democratic primary process being sidelined by the party in favor of propping up Joe Biden’s bid for re-election, Williamson garnered 3 percent of the vote in Michigan, where an “uncommitted” campaign urged voters angry about Biden’s response to the war in Gaza to register protest votes in the Democratic primary.

Staffers who worked for her 2020 bid, speaking anonymously due to nondisclosure agreements, described the campaign as an intensely toxic environment perpetuated by Williamson, whom they said displayed intense flashes of anger and sometimes lashed out physically. She denied the allegations at the time, calling them “slanderous” and “categorically untrue.” In January of 2020, she laid off her entire campaign staff ahead of the Iowa Caucuses.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dnc-chair-marianne-williamson-democrats-b2670221.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Listen to what she has to say but don't let her handle the china

I doubt very much she can run a sprawling organization.

[brush]

2. Hell to the no. Who even knows what she stands for besides flighty, sprituality. Hell no.

[3catwoman3]

3. Oh, gawd, just go away.

We need someone like Howard Dean.

I do like Martin O'Malley.

[Mysterian]

16. Martin O'Malley is a great name to mention

He is an excellent leader.

[Attilatheblond]

4. We need a vaccine for narcissism

[HereForTheParty]

5. She works within the party

so I'm not too upset with her.

[ToxMarz]

6. You say Marianne Williamson

I say Grifter. You can insert almost any other name these days, it's the same.

Pretty much the entire politcal discourse is nothing but a money grab. Anyway, anyhow I can cash out, I'm in!

[Gore1FL]

7. With Marianne Williamson, we can be a net exporter of essential oils. Drill Baby Drill!! nt

[Mz Pip]

8. Yeah

No

[rsdsharp]

9. I wish Ms. Moonbeam would go away.

[AverageOldGuy]

10. She's a dingbat . . .

. . . a wackjob. She was on MSNBC tonight, just more proof of how far MSNBC has fallen.

If you look deep into her eyes, you can see the back of her head.

[SKKY]

11. Like the great Rick James once said...

..."Narcissism. It's a hell of a drug!"

[thebigidea]

12. Imagine what a disaster this fucking grifter shitbag would cause

Imagine her awful tv appearances. oof.

She doesn't know what the job consists of and would be absolutely awful at fundraising that didn't make her richer.

[uncledad]

13. New Age Loon

[PunkinPi]

14. Absolutely not.

Her judgement is terrible, plus even she knows she would be a terrible manager, not to mention all the woo stuff.

Exhibit A


Exhibit B

[happy feet]

15. NO, just NO

She must think we have short memories?