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Creator Marianne Williamson has introduced she is suspending her marketing campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I admire enormously all of the unimaginable individuals who accompanied me on our political journey over the past ten months. Whereas the extent of our failure is clear to all, a stage of success is actual nonetheless,” Williamson stated in a prolonged assertion emailed to supporters.
“Processing this expertise will itself be an ongoing journey, and forgiveness will information me as I transfer by means of it. I cannot permit the psychological torment of all of the woulda shoulda couldas to tie me to the previous, however fairly I’ll maintain my eye on the bigger story. In methods I can not but see, none of this may have been in useless. There are hidden items which have solely simply begun to disclose themselves,” Williamson additionally wrote.
In a video accompanying the assertion, she stated partially: “We did what we may to shed some gentle in some very darkened instances.”
Williamson’s announcement comes after President Joe Biden clinched his first official victory of the 2024 cycle within the South Carolina Democratic main over the weekend, adopted by Tuesday’s victory in Nevada. Despite the fact that the president wasn’t on the poll in New Hampshire final month, Williamson was unable to safe a win. As an alternative, Biden symbolically received the first on an unofficial write-in marketing campaign.
Williamson launched her long-shot presidential bid in March 2023 — her second try after an unsuccessful run in 2020.
She touted her earlier run on the marketing campaign path, telling supporters at her marketing campaign launch that she was “not naive concerning the forces which haven’t any intention of permitting anybody into this dialog who doesn’t align with their predetermined agenda.”
“The established order won’t disrupt itself; that’s our job,” Williamson stated on the time. “Let the folks get in there. We’ll deal with it from right here.”
In 2020, Williamson failed to achieve traction in a crowded main area. However her debate stage appearances did garner consideration, together with when she claimed then-President Donald Trump had harnessed a “darkish psychic pressure of collectivized hatred.”
With Williamson’s exit, Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips stays the lone Democratic challenger to Biden, who’s already getting ready for a common election match-up with Trump.
This story has been up to date with extra particulars.
CNN’s Brian Rokus, Ethan Cohen, Shania Shelton, Kate Sullivan and Eric Bradner contributed to this report.