Post by account_disabled on Feb 27, 2024 2:12:13 GMT -6
Por Will Weissert, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Self-help author and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson announced Wednesday the end of her long-shot Democratic challenge to President Joe Biden. The former spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey, 71, contemplated suspending her campaign last month after winning just 5,000 votes in the New Hampshire primary, writing that she "had to decide whether now is the time for a dignified exit or a continue our campaign journey. .” But Williamson ultimately opted to continue for two more primaries. He got only 2% of the vote in South Carolina and about 3% in Nevada. “I hope future candidates take what works for them and drink from the well of information we prepared,” Williamson wrote in announcing the end of his candidacy. “My team and I brought some great ideas and I will be happy to see them in the campaigns and candidates yet to be created.” Minnesota Rep.
Dean Phillips is the last nationally known Democrat still running against Biden, who scored sweeping victories in South Carolina and Nevada and easily won New Hampshire, despite not being on the ballot, after his allies mounted a written campaign. Williamson first ran for president in 2020 and made national headlines by calling for a “moral Paraguay WhatsApp Number uprising” against then-President Donald Trump while also proposing the creation of the Department of Peace. He also argued that the federal government should pay large financial reparations to black Americans as atonement for centuries of slavery and discrimination. His second run for the White House featured the same nontraditional campaign style and many of the same policy proposals. She struggled to raise money and was plagued by staff layoffs from the early stages of her candidacy. She thrilled Biden, an avid Amtrak fan, by announcing her campaign at Washington's Union Station. She campaigned especially hard in New Hampshire, hoping to capitalize on state Democrats' frustration with the president.
This followed a new plan from the Democratic National Committee, championed by Biden, that rearranged the party's 2024 presidential primary schedule by starting with South Carolina on February 3. Williamson acknowledged early on that he was unlikely to defeat Biden, but argued in his launch speech in March that “it is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it overrides the forces of hate and violence.” injustice and fear.” The Democratic National Committee is not holding primary debates, and Democratic parties in some states, including North Carolina and Florida, are not even planning primaries to give Biden's rivals a chance. Williamson, a Texas native who now lives in Beverly Hills, California, is the author of more than a dozen books and ran an unsuccessful independent congressional campaign in California in 2014. She ended her 2020 presidential run shortly before the first caucuses. of Iowa, announcing that he did not want to count on the progressive support of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ultimately was the last candidate to withdraw before Biden secured the nomination.
Dean Phillips is the last nationally known Democrat still running against Biden, who scored sweeping victories in South Carolina and Nevada and easily won New Hampshire, despite not being on the ballot, after his allies mounted a written campaign. Williamson first ran for president in 2020 and made national headlines by calling for a “moral Paraguay WhatsApp Number uprising” against then-President Donald Trump while also proposing the creation of the Department of Peace. He also argued that the federal government should pay large financial reparations to black Americans as atonement for centuries of slavery and discrimination. His second run for the White House featured the same nontraditional campaign style and many of the same policy proposals. She struggled to raise money and was plagued by staff layoffs from the early stages of her candidacy. She thrilled Biden, an avid Amtrak fan, by announcing her campaign at Washington's Union Station. She campaigned especially hard in New Hampshire, hoping to capitalize on state Democrats' frustration with the president.
This followed a new plan from the Democratic National Committee, championed by Biden, that rearranged the party's 2024 presidential primary schedule by starting with South Carolina on February 3. Williamson acknowledged early on that he was unlikely to defeat Biden, but argued in his launch speech in March that “it is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it overrides the forces of hate and violence.” injustice and fear.” The Democratic National Committee is not holding primary debates, and Democratic parties in some states, including North Carolina and Florida, are not even planning primaries to give Biden's rivals a chance. Williamson, a Texas native who now lives in Beverly Hills, California, is the author of more than a dozen books and ran an unsuccessful independent congressional campaign in California in 2014. She ended her 2020 presidential run shortly before the first caucuses. of Iowa, announcing that he did not want to count on the progressive support of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ultimately was the last candidate to withdraw before Biden secured the nomination.