The campaign has been off to an inauspicious start. Is she for real?
“I have as much right to be here as any senator,” the longshot presidential candidate said in an interview with POLITICO. “If the founders had wanted to say, ‘Had to have been a lawyer, had to have been a governor, had to have been a senator, had to have been a congressman’ [to run for president], they would have. They didn’t for a reason.”
But the struggles aren’t just external. She recently lost her top two campaign officials, including former interim campaign manager Peter Daou, who announced his abrupt departure on Twitter.According to her latest financial disclosures, Williamson has less than $250,000 cash on hand in her campaign account and hasn’t hit the airwaves yet. And the Democratic National Committee also said it won’t schedule any primary debates.
In Marianne Williamson’s telling, her second presidential campaign is up against not only President Joe Biden and Robert Kennedy Jr., but also the “political media industrial complex." | Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoThe last time an incumbent president wasn’t renominated by his party was in 1884She said that she’s in the race because no one else is talking about the issues that she is.
But Williams considered a “symbolic” run for president before. In 2014, Williamson ran for office for the first time in California’s 33rd congressional district. She came in fourth in that open congressional race, a strong showing for a first-time candidate who also raised a respectable $2 million.but didn’t think it was the right time for a symbolic candidacy.
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