Marianne Williamson: ‘The system is bleeding voters’

(NewsNation) — Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is urging Americans to vote for her in states where she is still on the ballot, to send a message to the Democratic nominee President Joe Biden.

Williamson joined NewsNation’s “Morning in America” to discuss her role in the 2024 election, despite suspending her campaign in February and then “unsuspending” it after beating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) in the Michigan primaries.

Despite Biden having secured the Democratic nomination, Williamson says there is still a way for voters to send a message to Biden.

“The President has won the nomination, that’s not the question here. The issue is that in the states where I am still on the ballot, people still have the opportunity to weigh in with their views on how America should operate,” Williamson said. “We need universal health care, we need tuition, free college and tech school, we need a guaranteed living wage.”

“It’s not just the Democratic Party, the system is bleeding voters because people are disgusted. People recognize that both major political parties don’t, in the final analysis, seem so much to be serving the people or serving democracy so much as serving their own donor base,” Williamson said.

Williamson first ran for president in 2020 and made national headlines by calling for a “moral uprising” against then-President Donald Trump while proposing the creation of the Department of Peace. She also argued that the federal government should pay large financial reparations to Black Americans as atonement for centuries of slavery and discrimination.

Her second White House bid featured the same nontraditional campaigning style and many of the same policy proposals. But she struggled to raise money and was plagued by staff departures from her bid’s earliest stages.