Marianne Williamson is the first candidate to announce that she is standing for Democrat leader in the US primaries. Unlike other candidates, Sanders included, she does not have a grand governmental title or in fact any political experience at all. With a long career as a spiritual advisor to the stars, Oprah included, could Williamson heal the American soul? Florence Reed joins her live from the East Coast to find out.
Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.
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