Is There a Blank Check?

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There are many people who would say that any limitation on that blank check, as you call it, is actually just a green card to Putin. To take the other side here and forgive me for sounding like I'm a kind of sponsor of Raytheon or something, but there's a reason why presidents say what they say and don't say what they don't say. And he knows that he would be unwise to underestimate the resolve of the United States if we really felt the values that we care about were at risk during his behavior.

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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