Former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Thursday launched a bid for chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC), leaping right into a crowded area of candidates vying to rebuild the occasion after its common election losses final month.
“MAGA is a distinctly 21st century political movement and it will not be defeated by a 20th century tool kit. Data analysis, fundraising, field organizing, and beefed-up technology — while all are important — will not be enough to prepare the way for Democratic victory in 2024 and beyond. That’s why I have decided to run for DNC Chair this year,” Williamson wrote in a publish on her Substack.
Williamson cited her time on the marketing campaign path throughout her 2020 and 2024 presidential bids, arguing her “experience of what went wrong has given me insight into what needs doing to make things right.”
The self-help creator suspended her marketing campaign earlier than Iowa’s Democratic caucus in 2020. This cycle, she suspended and then unsuspended her presidential marketing campaign this February, however she remained a long-shot contender all through.
Williamson joins a rising area of candidates jostling to switch present DNC chair Jaime Harrison, who has held the function since 2021 and isn’t anticipated to strive for one more time period.
Among the many different declared contenders are New York State Sen. James Skoufis (D), Minnesota Democratic Occasion Chair Ken Martin, Wisconsin Democratic Occasion Chair Ben Wikler, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Homeland Safety official Nate Snyder.
The DNC chair race comes as Democrats assess their 2024 losses and chart a brand new path ahead by means of the 2026 midterms and past.
The candidates have largely pitched guarantees to rebuild and reimagine the occasion within the years forward, which is at the moment bracing for the GOP to take a trifecta of management in Washington — the White Home and each chambers of Congress — subsequent month.
“As Chairwoman, I will work to reinvent the party from the inside out. For if we want a new President in four years, and a new Congress in two, then we must immediately get about the task of creating a new party,” Williamson wrote.
The election for the brand new occasion chair and different management positions throughout the DNC is slated to be held on Feb. 1 – lower than two weeks after President-elect Trump is inaugurated – in the course of the occasion’s winter assembly at Nationwide Harbour, Md. The DNC can even host 4 boards subsequent month for the candidates to make their instances to the sitting committee members.
