Marianne Williamson
American author and politician
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| February 1 2025 | Williamson endorses Ken Martin, the frontrunner in the DNC chairperson election. |
| January 10 2025 | Williamson is informed by the DNC Ethnic Council of her exclusion from their candidate forum, to which she responds with a critical letter denouncing the decision. |
| 2024 | After a leaked Zoom meeting where she tentatively considered dropping out of the race, Williamson ultimately decided to continue her presidential campaign. |
| 2024 | Launched her second presidential campaign, continuing to promote progressive policies and running as a Democrat. |
| 2024 | Williamson announced her candidacy for president in the 2024 election, advocating for progressive policies similar to those of Bernie Sanders. |
| December 26 2024 | Announced her bid for DNC chair. |
| December 26 2024 | Marianne Williamson announces her candidacy for Democratic National Committee chairperson. |
| July 29 2024 | Dropped out of the presidential race again. |
| July 29 2024 | Williamson announced that she would not file a run against Harris in the planned virtual roll call vote, effectively ending her campaign. |
| July 21 2024 | Following Biden's suspension of his campaign and endorsement of Kamala Harris, Williamson continued to advocate for an open convention, expressing that the vice president should not be 'anointed to the position of nominee.' |
| July 2 2024 | Williamson reenters the presidential race, criticizing Biden following his debate with Donald Trump. |
| July 2 2024 | Williamson resumed her campaign after calls for Biden to drop out following his performance at the June 27 presidential debate. |
| June 11 2024 | Williamson announced her decision to suspend her campaign again. |
| March 2024 | On Super Tuesday, Williamson received approximately 200,000 votes out of more than six million cast, failing to secure any delegates as she did not achieve over 15% of the vote in any states, with her highest results being 9.1% in Oklahoma and 7.8% in Virginia. |
| February 2024 | In the Kansas Democratic presidential primary, Greeley County experienced a three-way tie between Biden, Williamson, and 'None of these names'. |
| February 28 2024 | Williamson rejoined the presidential race after retracting her campaign suspension, following a third place finish in the Michigan Democratic primary ahead of Dean Phillips. |
| February 7 2024 | Williamson suspended her campaign due to losses in the New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada Democratic primaries. |
| February 6 2024 | Marianne Williamson participated in the 2024 Nevada Democratic presidential primary, where she received 3% of the vote, resulting in her not winning any delegates. |
| February 3 2024 | Marianne Williamson received 2.1% of the vote and zero delegates in the 2024 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, marking it as the first state to earn delegates for Democratic candidates. |
| January 2024 | Williamson received 4% of the votes in the New Hampshire primary. |
| January 2024 | Williamson's third campaign manager, Carlos Cardona, resigned from the campaign. |
| 2023 | Published 'The Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love', her most recent book exploring spiritual themes. |
| 2023 | A critical discussion of Williamson's presidential campaign and political philosophy was featured on the Integral Stage podcast. |
| December 6 2023 | Williamson, along with Dean Phillips and Cenk Uygur, arranged to appear together to respond to the Republican candidates' debate and discuss their policy positions on Uygur's The Young Turks network. |
| November 2023 | Williamson and fellow challengers Dean Phillips and Cenk Uygur claimed they were unfairly disqualified from the Florida Democratic Party primary ballot, which the party discounted. |
| September 2023 | Peter Daou became the campaign manager for Cornel West's 2024 presidential run under the Green Party ticket. |
| September 2023 | Williamson announced a new book scheduled to be released in September 2023, leading to criticisms from former staffers about the campaign's focus. |
| July 2023 | Politico reported that Williamson contributed $220,000 to her own campaign and had $270,000 in unpaid debts. |
| July 2023 | In early July, six more staff members, including her entire South Carolina team, left the Williamson campaign amid dissatisfaction with her campaign operations. |
| June 2023 | Roza Calderon, Williamson's second campaign manager, left the campaign, with reports indicating that she had struggled under Williamson's management. |
| May 20 2023 | Her deputy campaign manager Jason Call departed from her campaign team. |
| May 20 2023 | Williamson's campaign manager Peter Daou announced he was leaving the campaign via Twitter, citing a need to care for his and his wife's ailing parents. |
| March 2023 | Politico published a report detailing Williamson's alleged abuses towards her staffers on her 2020 campaign, describing a toxic work environment and intense outbursts of anger. |
| March 4 2023 | Williamson formally announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential election during a twenty-minute speech at Union Station in Washington, D.C. |
| March 4 2023 | Marianne Williamson announced her campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election, becoming the first major Democratic candidate to officially declare her candidacy. |
| February 18 2023 | Marianne Williamson confirmed she would make an important announcement about the 2024 presidential election, signaling her potential candidacy and intention to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. |
| February 18 2023 | Marianne Williamson confirmed that she would make an important announcement regarding the 2024 presidential election in Washington, D.C. on March 4. |
| 2022 | Described herself as a 'Jewish woman' in an interview. |
| 2021 | Fisher published the first scholarly and journalistic intellectual biography of Williamson, offering critiques and recommendations on her leadership style and political campaign approaches. |
| 2020 | Participated in Democratic presidential debates, receiving mixed reviews for her performance - praised by some politicians and media outlets for 'surprisingly eloquent' answers, while criticized by others for being 'vague' and 'kooky'. |
| 2020 | Publicly criticized Vogue magazine for not including her in an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot of female presidential candidates, subsequently posting a fan-made edited photo of herself in the shoot. |
| 2020 | Marianne Williamson ran for president in the 2020 election, where she expressed her support for universal-basic-income. |
| February 23 2020 | Williamson endorses Bernie Sanders at a rally in Austin, Texas, following her campaign suspension. |
| January 10 2020 | Williamson ends her presidential campaign and pledges to support the eventual Democratic nominee. |
| January 10 2020 | Williamson formally ended her campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, subsequently endorsing Bernie Sanders and then Joe Biden as the nominee. |
| January 2 2020 | Williamson laid off her entire campaign staff, with speculation about potential campaign withdrawal. |
| 2019 | Williamson spoke out against Trump's mass-deportation plans, drawing a controversial parallel between these policies and the treatment of Jewish people in Nazi Germany. |
| 2019 | Published 'A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution', signaling her deeper engagement with political discourse. |
| July 30 2019 | Williamson participated in the second Democratic primary debate, becoming the most Googled candidate in 49 states and gaining attention for her comments about a 'dark psychic force' and the Flint water crisis. |
| June 2019 | Williamson moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in preparation for the 2020 caucuses and appointed 99 'Virtual Iowa Caucus Captains'. |
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