自助作者玛丽安娜·威廉森她在周日告诉捐赠者，她将作为民主党人在2024年竞选总统这可能是乔·拜登总统在左翼面临的主要挑战。
威廉森，他也寻求2020年民主党总统候选人提名但未能取得任何初选，可能会从左翼挑战拜登，如果他最终如预期那样竞选连任。她不太可能获得任何机构的支持，包括来自华盛顿强大的进步人士的支持，因为民主党似乎正在团结在总统周围。
在美国广播公司新闻获得的捐助者电子邮件中，威廉姆森表示，她将提供一个与拜登相冲突的愿景，认为国家从根本上正朝着错误的方向前进，同时含蓄地回应了对她当选的担忧。
威廉姆森写道，她将在本周六的一次演讲中正式发起竞标。
“我的资格并不在于我在运行这一系统方面有经验，而是我最有资格帮助改变这一系统。华盛顿有很多优秀的政治汽车技师，但问题是我们走错了路，”她写道。
“自2016年大选以来，任何人都认为自己能够知道谁会赢得总统大选，这很奇怪。威廉姆森写道:“我不会为了增加话题而让自己再经历一次。”。“我竞选总统是为了帮助结束我们历史上不正常的一章，并带来一个新的开始。”
2020年2月23日，在得克萨斯州奥斯汀的维克·马蒂亚斯·肖尔斯公园举行的竞选集会上，玛丽安娜·威廉森发言支持当时的民主党总统候选人参议员伯尼·桑德斯(I-VT)。
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威廉姆森最初获得了一批追随者，写了几本畅销的自助书籍，并与各种公共健康相关的慈善机构合作。
2020年，她在20多名民主党总统候选人中竞选，主要是和平主义的信息。她还因在竞选中使用类似的自助语言而闻名，包括呼吁时任总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)说，她将“利用爱”来战胜他用来吸引选民的“恐惧”。
威廉姆森还接受了一系列进步政策，如所谓的“全民医保”和15美元的最低工资。
另外，她还不得不与围绕疫苗的争议作斗争，特别是在2019年将疫苗授权称为“奥威尔式”之后的新冠肺炎事件中。此后，她表示，围绕此类授权有一场合理的辩论，但她已接种了针对新冠肺炎的疫苗。
就拜登而言，他还没有明确表示他将竞选总统，尽管人们普遍预计他将在夏天之前发起竞选活动。
“我的意向是——从——已经——意向已经从一开始就运行了。但是在我开始竞选之前，我们有太多其他的事情要在短期内完成在接受美国广播公司新闻主播大卫·缪尔采访时说道上周在白宫。
拜登是最年长的在任总统，在第二个任期结束时将是86岁。
“人们提出我的年龄问题是合理的。这么做完全合法。我唯一能说的就是——看我的，”拜登对穆尔说。
Marianne Williamson says she'll run for president again, in long shot challenge to Biden
Self-help authorMarianne Williamsontold donors on Sunday that she willrun for president as a Democrat in 2024, mounting what is likely to be a primary challenge to President Joe Biden from his left flank.
Williamson, who alsosought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020but failed to make any primary, will likely challenge Biden from the left, should he ultimately run for reelection as expected. She is unlikely to get any institutional support, including from powerful progressives in Washington, as the Democratic Party appears to be coalescing around the president.
In the donor email, obtained by ABC News, Williamson suggested she will offer a clashing vision to Biden's, arguing the country is fundamentally heading in the wrong direction while implicitly responding to concerns over her electability.
Williamson wrote that she will formally launch her bid during a speech this coming Saturday.
"My qualification is not that I'm experienced at running that system, but that I'm best qualified to help transform it. Washington is filled with good political car mechanics, but the problem is that we are on the wrong road," she wrote.
"[S]ince the election of 2016 it's odd for anyone to think they can know who can win the presidency. And I'm not putting myself through this again just to add to the conversation," Williamson wrote. "I'm running for president to help bring an aberrational chapter of our history to a close, and to help bring forth a new beginning."
Williamson first garnered a following writing several bestselling self-help books and working with various public health-related charities.
In 2020, she ran in a field of more than two dozen Democratic presidential candidates on a largely pacifist message. She also became known for using similar language from her self-help experience in her campaign, including calling out then-President Donald Trump and saying she would "harness love" to defeat the "fear" he had deployed to entice voters.
Williamson also embraced a slate of progressive policies like so-called "Medicare for All" and a $15 minimum wage.
Separately, she has had to combat controversy around vaccines, particularly in in the wake of COVID-19, after calling vaccine mandates "Orwellian" in 2019. She has since said there is a legitimate debate to be had around such mandates but that she is inoculated against COVID-19.
Biden, for his part, has not definitively said he will run for president, though he is widely expected to launch a campaign by the summer.
"[M]y intention is -- from-- has -- intention has been from the beginning to run. But there's too many other things we have to finish in the near term before I start a campaign," hetold ABC News anchor David Muir in an interviewat the White House last week.
Biden is the oldest sitting president and would be 86 at the end of a second term.
"It's legitimate for people to raise issues about my age. It's totally legitimate to do that. And the only thing I can say is -- watch me," Biden told Muir.
