Marianne Williamson ‘unsuspends’ 2024 presidential campaign, rips Biden after Michigan primary

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said Wednesday morning she was back in the 2024 race, just three weeks after announcing she was suspending her campaign, calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump a “fascist” and claiming President Biden is unable to defeat him in November.

The best-selling author and self-help guru received 3% of the vote in Michigan’s Democratic primary Tuesday, ahead of Biden challenger Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who could only manage 2.7%

“As of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States. I had suspended it because I was losing the horse race, but something so much more important than the horse race is at stake here,” Williamson said on X, arguing that “we have a fascist standing at the door.”

The 71-year-old then launched into a tirade against Biden, saying it was “delusional” to believe he has a chance at defeating Trump in November and that the whole race is a “car crash in slow motion.”

“What is President Biden offering? He says, ‘Let’s finish the job….’ What does he say beyond, ‘You know the economy is really doing well,’” added Williamson, claiming the economy was only going well for 20% of Americans.

The long-shot candidate argued the US needs “to have a peace academy as well as a military academy,” endorse a a cease-fire in the Middle East and pay reparations to descendants of African-American slaves to “respond to Donald Trump’s dark vision of possibility.”

“We need to take this country in a direction of hope and possibility and regeneration. That is the vision that will defeat Donald Trump, not ‘let us finish the job,’” she said.

Williamson had suspended her campaign after coming third in the Nevada Democratic primary behind Biden and “none of these candidates.”

“In the final analysis, I think the only real failure in life is that which we fail to learn from,” Williamson said at the time. “I have learned so much already and I know that I will learn more. Processing this experience will itself be an ongoing journey, and forgiveness will guide me as I move through it.” 

Williamson entered the race in March 2023 and was the first to challenge Biden’s re-election effort. She also ran for the Democratic nomination in 2020, suspending her campaign that January and endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

In Michigan, Williamson got just over 22,000 votes — a total dwarfed by the more than 100,000 who cast ballots as “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s policies toward the Middle East.