Marianne Williamson: 3rd Party Run Could ‘Risk Sending Ten Votes Away’ From Democrat Beating Trump

Even as members of the Democratic Party criticized Howard Schultz for floating the possibility of running as a third-party candidate, 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson, who ran for Congress as an independent in 2014, told Bold TV this time the cost would be too high if she threw the race toward President Trump’s re-election. So this time in her bid for federal office, she’s running as a Democrat.  “Well, the Constitution does not mention political parties and George Washington warned us against them,” Williamson told Bold TV. “I think this whole dichotomy, including ‘liberal’ versus ‘conservative’ is getting old, and it’s a distraction from the deeper things we need to be discussing. At the time [when she ran as an independent in California in 2014], I felt it was a principled thing to do because I do feel the American political conversation should involve more than just Democrats and Republicans or even Conservatives and Liberals. However, this is a different time and given this president, not because he’s a Conservative—which actually I don’t think he is—but given his performance, his policies, and his falsehoods, I would not risk sending ten votes away from a candidate with a good chance of defeating…
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