Self-help author Marianne Williamson announces White House challenge to Biden
- Williamson, 70, also a spiritual adviser, is the first Democrat to officially enter the 2024 race – even before US President Joe Biden
- In a televised announcement, Williamson summarised her candidate positions, denouncing mass incarceration, economic inequity and racial injustice
Other Democrats have held off announcing their candidacies pending a decision from Biden, who at 80 has said he has “the intention” to run again but has yet to formally enter the race.
In her televised announcement, Williamson summarised her candidate positions, denouncing mass incarceration, economic inequity and racial injustice and calling for “an emergency-level transition from a dirty economy to a clean economy.”
“Government of the people by the people and for the people is perishing,” she said, referring to an Abraham Lincoln quote. “This government is now a government of the corporations by the corporations and for the corporations.”
After her 1992 book A Return to Love became a bestseller, Williamson was a frequent guest of talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey, offering advice on personal development while raising her own profile.
Then four years ago, the unconventional Williamson took on Biden and some 20 other Democratic candidates for the presidency.