New Age guru and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson has fired her entire national campaign team Thursday, but she vowed to stay in the race.
She acknowledged that her campaign was struggling financially, but she refused to give up her offbeat campaign.
“I am not suspending my candidacy, however; a campaign not having a huge war chest should not be what determines its fate,” she said in an email to supporters. “The point of my candidacy has been to tell the heart’s truth and that does not cost money. Forging a new path for campaigns is going to be necessary, if we’re ever to forge a new path for our country.”
The email also asked for contributions from $10 to the federal maximum of $2,800.
She said the Democratic race needed her voice to continue a discussion of “waging peace,” confronting “amoral economics of a corporate aristocracy,” and producing a “World War II level mass mobilization to reverse climate change.”
Ms. Williamson said she wouldn’t quit “because I’m talking about a politics of love.”
Ms. Williamson, an author of bestselling spiritualist self-help books, has run a quixotic campaign that pledged to harness the “power of love” to defeat President Trump.
After gaining attention on the debate stage early in the race, she has failed to qualify for the December debate or the Jan. 14 debate in Iowa.
She dismissed her entire staff in New Hampshire and nationally, WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire, first reported hours before the supporter email.
The Williamson campaign had employed about 45 staffers in four early voting states as well as at her campaign headquarters in Sacramento, California.
She vowed to “harness the power of American decency in service to the healing of our country.”
Her platform includes the creation of a Department of Children and Youth, a mass mobilization to reverse climate change, and reparations for black Americans and American Indians.
“Turning love into a political force is not a pipe dream; it is simply a choice. These are extraordinary times and we have it within us to respond to them in extraordinary ways,” she wrote on her campaign website.
The layoffs came the same day fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro announced that he was dropping out of the race.
• S.A. Miller can be reached at smiller@washingtontimes.com.
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