Just over a year ago, in January 2022, we shared
news of loud rumblings from the progressive wing of the Democrat Party
that President Joe Biden would not run unopposed in any reelection bid.
Now, that foreshadowing has come to fruition. ABC News reports that in a speech
in Washington, D.C., Saturday, author and 2020 Democratic presidential
primary candidate Marianne Williamson announced that she’s running for
president in 2024.
“The status quo, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else, will not
disrupt itself,” Williamson said as she announced her candidacy at Union
Station in Washington, D.C. “That’s our job.”
“We’re all here because we care about this country. But we’re all
here, or at least many of us are, because we are upset about this
country, we’re worried about this country,” she said, adding, “It is our
job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful, that it
will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear.”
…
“I’m not naive about the forces which have no intention of allowing
anyone into this conversation who does not align with their
predetermined agenda,” she said.
Williamson also shared the news on her official Twitter account, with
a video stating that while Americans “owe Pres. Biden a debt of
gratitude for defeating President Trump in 2020,” her campaign would
promise a veritable progressive wishlist of giveaways like tuition-free
college and universal health care.
Williamson is scheduled to talk about her candidacy on ABC News’
“This Week” with host Jon Karl Sunday. In one advance excerpt, she
reacts to suggestions that Biden is “a shoo-in” for the nomination, and
her run is “not credible”:
“I would bet that the Associated Press also said that Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in,” Williamson said.
“The system that is now saying I’m unserious, that I’m not credible
or I’m a longshot is the very system that protects and maintains this
idea that only those whose careers have been entrenched within the
system that drove us into a ditch should possibly be qualified to lead
us out of that ditch.”
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