Marianne Williamson confirms her run for president in 2024

Houston, Texas - Marianne Williamson confirmed in a recent interview that she will be running for president once again in 2024.

Marianne Williamson, who ran for president in 2020, has confirmed that she is once again running in 2024, making her the first Democrat to join the race.
Marianne Williamson, who ran for president in 2020, has confirmed that she is once again running in 2024, making her the first Democrat to join the race.  © Collage: Imago/ZUMA Wire

The spiritual author will be running as a Democrat, and is the first to officially jump into the Democratic race. She made the announcement in an interview with Medill on the Hill, a news site run by Northwestern University.

"I wouldn't be running for president if I didn’t believe I could contribute to harnessing the collective sensibility that I feel is our greatest hope at this time," she said.

President Joe Biden is also expected to run, but has yet to announce it publicly.

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Williamson first ran as a Democrat during the 2020 presidential race. Unfortunately, her campaign only lasted a year before she dropped out in January 2020 after barely polling at less than 1%.

She did participate in several Democratic primary debates, garnering fans for her eccentric and charming personality and progressive politics.

Yet, her critics have deemed her as "crazy" and a candidate that's not to be taken seriously, as some of her statements and actions in the past have been seen as a bit bizarre.

During the 2020 primaries, she infamously stated that she would "love" to defeat Donald Trump, and during a speaking event back in 2016, she got a group of white Americans to apologize to Black Americans for the "evils that have been perpetrated" against them in America.

On Thursday, Williamson shared a tweet for a live-streamed event in Washington on March 4 where she plans to make "an important announcement."

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