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BumRushDaShow

(149,933 posts)
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:27 PM Dec 2024

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

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

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Marianne Williamson enters the race for DNC chair: We need to 'create the energy' to counter Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2024 OP
Listen to what she has to say but don't let her handle the china bucolic_frolic Dec 2024 #1
Hell to the no. Who even knows what she stands for besides flighty, sprituality. Hell no. brush Dec 2024 #2
Oh, gawd, just go away. 3catwoman3 Dec 2024 #3
Martin O'Malley is a great name to mention Mysterian Dec 2024 #16
We need a vaccine for narcissism Attilatheblond Dec 2024 #4
She works within the party HereForTheParty Dec 2024 #5
You say Marianne Williamson ToxMarz Dec 2024 #6
With Marianne Williamson, we can be a net exporter of essential oils. Drill Baby Drill!! nt Gore1FL Dec 2024 #7
Yeah Mz Pip Dec 2024 #8
I wish Ms. Moonbeam would go away. rsdsharp Dec 2024 #9
She's a dingbat . . . AverageOldGuy Dec 2024 #10
Like the great Rick James once said... SKKY Dec 2024 #11
Imagine what a disaster this fucking grifter shitbag would cause thebigidea Dec 2024 #12
New Age Loon uncledad Dec 2024 #13
Absolutely not. PunkinPi Dec 2024 #14
NO, just NO happy feet Dec 2024 #15
What? The Trumpists have their Oprah-created nut job, so... LudwigPastorius Dec 2024 #17
Whut...? CTyankee Dec 2024 #18
Is she working for Trump? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Dec 2024 #19

bucolic_frolic

(49,492 posts)
1. Listen to what she has to say but don't let her handle the china
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:31 PM
Dec 2024

I doubt very much she can run a sprawling organization.

brush

(59,412 posts)
2. Hell to the no. Who even knows what she stands for besides flighty, sprituality. Hell no.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:35 PM
Dec 2024

ToxMarz

(2,308 posts)
6. You say Marianne Williamson
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 11:22 PM
Dec 2024

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!

AverageOldGuy

(2,513 posts)
10. She's a dingbat . . .
Fri Dec 27, 2024, 01:56 AM
Dec 2024

. . . 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.

thebigidea

(13,489 posts)
12. Imagine what a disaster this fucking grifter shitbag would cause
Fri Dec 27, 2024, 07:51 AM
Dec 2024

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.

PunkinPi

(5,085 posts)
14. Absolutely not.
Fri Dec 27, 2024, 09:34 AM
Dec 2024

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


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