Marianne Williamson launches bid for Democratic Nationwide Committee chair
Washington — Marianne Williamson, a self-help writer who twice ran for president, introduced Thursday that she is operating for chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee.
In an open letter to DNC members posted on-line, Williamson laid out her plan for the occasion because it seeks to maneuver ahead after shedding the White Home and Senate in November. She urged Democrats to signal a petition to permit her to take part in candidate boards that will likely be held in January.
DNC members will elect the occasion’s new chair and different officers at its winter assembly Feb. 1. There may even be a sequence of 4 boards to permit these operating for DNC chair to talk with occasion members and lay out their imaginative and prescient for the Democratic Get together.
“As chairwoman, I’ll work to reinvent the occasion from the within out,” Williamson wrote in her pitch to DNC members. “For if we would like a brand new president in 4 years, and a brand new Congress in two, then we should instantly get in regards to the process of making a brand new occasion.”
She mentioned beneath her plan, the Democratic Get together will likely be one which “listens extra, and makes folks really feel that their ideas and emotions are as vital as their wallets” and “advocates unequivocally for the working folks of the USA.” Williamson mentioned the occasion may have “the humility to acknowledge we have to look within the mirror, and be prepared to reinvent ourselves.”
“We can’t simply combat; we are going to encourage. We’ll create a surge of patriotic fervor, and a connectedness of the American coronary heart to the nice historic legacy of this nation,” she wrote. “Our final success will likely be creating in folks’s minds a way that in an effort to additional that legacy, your smartest transfer is to vote for Democrats.”
Williamson joins a discipline of candidates that features Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland; Ken Martin, chief of the Minnesota arm of the Democratic Get together; and Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Get together. Jaime Harrison, the present DNC chair, isn’t searching for reelection.
Williamson, 72, sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024. She was the primary Democrat to launch her presidential bid throughout the newest election, changing into the primary major challenger to President Biden.
A non secular adviser and writer, Williamson suspended her presidential marketing campaign in early February, however rejoined the race a number of weeks later. After the primaries led to June, she posted on social media that she was “now not a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president.” Mr. Biden dropped out of the race in July, with the Democratic Get together finally nominating Vice President Kamala Harris.
