Marianne Williamson drops long-shot 2024 presidential bid

• Self-help guru Marianne Williamson has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race.
• "As of today we are suspending our campaign," she wrote in a message to supporters.
• Williamson won roughly 4% of the vote in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, and 2% in South Carolina's primary.

Author Marianne Williamson announced her exit from the 2024 presidential race.

"As of today we are suspending our campaign," she wrote Wednesday evening in a message to supporters.

"While the level of our failure is obvious to all, a level of success is real nonetheless," she wrote. "We articulated deeper, more authentic truths than those regularly acknowledged by the political establishment."

Williamson was one of few Democratic challengers to incumbent President Joe Biden, along with House Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn. She and Phillips both consistently polled with single-digit margins.

Williamson won roughly 2% of the vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary last weekend.

The self-help guru campaigned on an anti-establishment platform, looking to "Disrupt the System," according to one of her slogans. This was her second presidential bid, after a failed primary campaign in 2020.

Williamson, 71, said that she was running for president to "course-correct" the damage of former President Donald Trump and prevent him from winning a second term.

But the Texas native mainly entered the race to be an alternative to Biden, during a time when early polling showed the president lagging on key issues like the economy and losing support among core Democratic voting blocs, like Latino voters.

Biden's perceived weak spots created an opportunity for candidates like Williamson and Phillips to campaign primarily as Biden substitutes.

"Biden will not win. I