Marianne Williamson Wants to Run the Democratic National Committee: 'We Won't Just Fight, We Will Inspire'

Mar. 15, 2025

Marianne Williamson at a Los Angeles event in August 2023.Photo:Tommaso Boddi/Getty

Marianne Williamson, Project Angel Food Honorary Founding Chair at Project Angel Food Ground Breaking of $51 Million The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Campus on August 03, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

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Marianne Williamsonis running to lead the Democratic National Committee, joining a growing field of candidates who believe they are best equipped to turn the party’s prospects around after losing ground in the 2024 elections.

Williamson, 72, is a New Age self-help author who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in2020and2024. On Thursday, Dec. 26, the progressive activist announced her campaign for DNC chair in anopen letter, promising to “reinvent the party from the inside out.”

“In the 2024 election, throughout my campaign I warned of a coming electoral disaster if Democrats did not listen more deeply to the pain of people throughout America,” she wrote. “My experience of what went wrong has given me insight into what needs doing to make things right.”

She continued: “We won’t just fight; we will inspire. We will create a surge of patriotic fervor, and a connectedness of the American heart to the great historical legacy of this country.”

Marianne Williamson visits the SiriusXM Studios in New York City on Sept. 19, 2023.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Marianne Williamson visits SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on September 19, 2023

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Williamson made headlines during the 2020 Democratic primaries as an unconventional candidate who argued that the party needed to fight PresidentDonald Trumpwith “love.” She withdrew her candidacy before voting began.

Williamson declared her long-shot candidacy again in the 2024 primary race,ending her campaignfollowing a poor performance in the earliest contests. She then “unsuspended” her campaign three weeks later over concerns about PresidentJoe Biden’s leadership, writing in a letter to voters, “My ability to arouse in Americans the angels of our better nature is the most powerful antidote to Trump’s dark and authoritarian vision.”

With less competition in 2024, Williamson earned a total of 465,863 votes — or 2.8% — though she did not secure any delegates.

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Williamson joins a handful of other candidates vying for the top spot, including DNC Vice Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler and former Maryland Gov.Martin O’Malley.

The DNC leadership elections will take place during the party’s winter meeting in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 1, 2025. All 448 DNC members are eligible to vote on a new chair, and the candidate who earns a simple majority will win.

source: people.com