Marianne Williamson 2024 presidential campaign

Marianne Williamson—an author, political activist, and candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020—announced her campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election on March 4, 2023.^[8] Williamson was the first major Democratic candidate to officially announce their candidacy,^[9][10] as President Joe Biden did not announce his re-election bid until April 2023.^[11] Williamson suspended her campaign on February 7, 2024, as a result of her losses in the New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada Democratic primaries. She later retracted her campaign suspension and officially rejoined the race on February 28, 2024, following her third place finish in the Michigan Democratic primary ahead of Dean Phillips, whose campaign was still active at the time.^[12] On April 7, she announced her intention to again suspend active campaigning by the end of that month.^[13]