Marianne Williamson Drops Out Of Presidential Race

LOADING ERROR LOADING Marianne Williamson has exited the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, she announced on Friday. In a statement on her website, the author and “spiritual adviser” said she didn’t want her campaign to diminish the success of progressive candidates leading the polls in early states. The primaries might be tightly contested among the top contenders, and I don’t want to get in the way of a progressive candidate winning any of them.” In an early sign of what was to come, Williamson reportedly laid off her entire campaign staff at the start of the new year due to dwindling campaign cash. Lucas Jackson / Reuters Williamson launched her presidential bid in January 2019 as a way “to engage voters in a more meaningful conversation about America, about our history, about how each of us fit into it, and how to create a sustainable future.” “Our national challenges are deep, but our political conversation is shallow,” she said during her campaign announcement. “My campaign is for people who want to dig deeper into the questions we face as a nation and deeper into finding the answers.’’ Williamson pitched voters on six policy pillars “for a season of moral repair”: financial policy that opposed trickle-down economics; creating a U.S. Department of Children and Youth; mass mobilization to reverse climate change; creating a U.S. Department of Peace; investing in African American communities as reparations for slavery; and a “Whole Health Plan.” Apart from an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2014, Williamson spent the bulk of her career in the self-help and personal growth space.