{"id":135642,"date":"2024-12-27T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/marianne-williamson-announces-campaign-to-lead-the-democratic-national-committee\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:54:28","slug":"marianne-williamson-announces-campaign-to-lead-the-democratic-national-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/marianne-williamson-announces-campaign-to-lead-the-democratic-national-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Williamson Announces Campaign to Lead the Democratic National Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Any hopes that two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/dean-phillips-and-marianne-williamson-trash-joe-biden-to-a-room-full-of-12-year-olds?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed presidential candidate<\/a> <strong>Marianne Williamson<\/strong> had left politics and returned to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2018\/11\/marianne-williamson-oprah-winfrey-president-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roots as a non secular guru<\/a> have been dashed Thursday. That\u2019s when <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marwilliamson\/status\/1857191093873328554\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/marwilliamson\/status\/1857191093873328554&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marwilliamson\/status\/1857191093873328554\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the vocal supporter of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged sexual assailant<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/rfk-jr-says-trump-has-promised-him-control-of-public-health-agencies?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-vaxxer<\/a> <strong>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/strong> introduced by way of her Substack (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2022\/05\/substacks-founders-dive-headfirst-into-the-culture-wars?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>in fact<\/em><\/a>) that she is launching a marketing campaign to move up the Democratic National Committee and to \u201creinvent the party\u201d in her picture.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Williamson sprang into the highlight within the late Eighties as an advisor to the celebrities, characterised in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/share\/35fbb1f9-a67e-401e-b55d-5da2e9dd54e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 1991 <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> function<\/a> as \u201ca liberal, Jewish ex-lounge singer from Texas\u201d who introduced <em>A Course in Miracles<\/em>\u2014a guide allegedly <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/acim.org\/about-acim\/acim-scribing\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/acim.org\/about-acim\/acim-scribing\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/acim.org\/about-acim\/acim-scribing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dictated to its writer by Jesus Christ<\/a>\u2014into the mainstream. Now 72, she\u2019s since moved from the non secular realm into the political, throwing her hat into the Democratic presidential ring in 2020, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/biden-victory-south-carolina-democratic-primary?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once more in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Williamson\u2019s non-traditional stances on the 2019 marketing campaign path really feel nearly quaint in comparison with RFK, Jr.\u2019s throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-fit-after-harris-ignores-outreach?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most up-to-date election cycle<\/a>, however such is the frog-in-pot lifetime of America in 2024. Still, her announcement that, if elected, she\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/08\/marianne-williamson-on-god-guns-and-levitation-podcast?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launch a Department of Peace<\/a>, or that hurricanes might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/09\/marianne-williamson-hurricane-dorian?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">managed by collective meditation<\/a>, or that \u201c<strong>James Cameron<\/strong> deserves a Nobel Peace Price\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2019\/06\/marianne-williamson-debate?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for <em>Avatar<\/em><\/a> <em>s<\/em>until managed to boost even essentially the most jaded political watchers\u2019 brows, as did <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/marianne-williamson-abusive-treatment-2020-campaign-staff-00087268\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/marianne-williamson-abusive-treatment-2020-campaign-staff-00087268&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/16\/marianne-williamson-abusive-treatment-2020-campaign-staff-00087268\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of a poisonous and abusive setting<\/a> for marketing campaign staffers in 2020. (Williamson, for her half, has denied these allegations, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/17\/marianne-williamson-staff-abuse-response\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/17\/marianne-williamson-staff-abuse-response&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/17\/marianne-williamson-staff-abuse-response\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling them a<\/a> \u201cdistraction technique.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">But although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2019\/06\/democratic-primary-debates-review-kamala-harris-marianne-williamson?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the heavily-memed former candidate<\/a> appeared to finally understand that her path to the White House started and ended together with her imaginative and prescient board, the spiritualist desires to stay within the recreation. In her subscription publication, \u201cTRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson,\u201d the instructor (who simply yesterday <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/christmas-and-hanukkah-and-the-coming\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/christmas-and-hanukkah-and-the-coming&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/christmas-and-hanukkah-and-the-coming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used her platform<\/a> to announce \u201conly love is real\u201d) <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/im-running-for-dnc-chair\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/im-running-for-dnc-chair&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transformarticles.com\/p\/im-running-for-dnc-chair\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted an open letter<\/a> to DNC members saying that \u201cThe MAGA phenomenon now challenges the very way that politics are done in America, and the traditional tool kit of party organizing will not be enough to meet the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Williamson, who simply final month tweeted \u201cGood choice!\u201d in response to <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s announcement that Kennedy could be named the nation\u2019s Secretary of Health and Human Services, writes that \u201cPresident Trump has ushered in an age of political theatre \u2013 a collective adrenaline rush that has enabled him to not only move masses of people into his camp but also masses of people away from ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">While Williamson doesn&#8217;t point out the highest contenders to interchange DNC Chair <strong>Jaime Harrison<\/strong>, who led the celebration since 2021 and isn\u2019t anticipated to hunt one other time period, her criticism of the Dem\u2019s present methods appears a shot at conventional candidates corresponding to Minnesota Democratic Party Chair <strong>Ken Martin<\/strong>, former Maryland Gov. <strong>Martin O\u2019Malley<\/strong>, former Homeland Security official <strong>Nate Snyder<\/strong>, Sen. <strong>James Skoufis,<\/strong> and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair <strong>Ben Wikler.<\/strong> \u201cData analysis, fundraising, field organizing, and beefed-up technology \u2013 while all are important &#8211; will not be enough to prepare the way for Democratic victory in 2024 and beyond,\u201d Williamson writes, proposing \u201cA party that listens more, and makes people feel that their thoughts and feelings are as important as their wallets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The DNC is slated to carry its election for positions, together with its chair, on February 1, with 4 candidate boards deliberate all through January. Williamson is the one lady, to this point, to announce her candidacy for the function.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a video that accompanied her letter, Williamson stated, \u201cDonald Trump is a 21st-century political phenomenon, and we need to become one, too \u2026 We need to know what it was that made people feel that their wallets were more important than their pain. We need to understand what it is that has made people emotionally and psychologically disconnect from a sense that the Democratic Party was part of a great legacy in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Any hopes that two-time failed presidential candidate Marianne Williamson had left politics and returned to her roots as a non secular guru have been dashed Thursday. That\u2019s when the vocal supporter of alleged sexual assailant and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. introduced by way of her Substack (in fact) that she is launching a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[355,4245,3987,4400,1985,7542,192,3691],"class_list":{"0":"post-135642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-announces","9":"tag-campaign","10":"tag-committee","11":"tag-democratic","12":"tag-lead","13":"tag-marianne","14":"tag-national","15":"tag-williamson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}