{"id":2289391,"date":"2024-07-05T07:14:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blew-up-in-their-face-marianne-williamson-slams-dnc-decision-to-boost-biden-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T07:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:17:58","slug":"blew-up-in-their-face-marianne-williamson-slams-dnc-decision-to-boost-biden-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blew-up-in-their-face-marianne-williamson-slams-dnc-decision-to-boost-biden-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blew up in their face\u2019: Marianne Williamson slams DNC decision to boost Biden &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblew-up-in-their-face-marianne-williamson-slams-dnc-decision-to-boost-biden-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2289391&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary:\u2064 Marianne Williamson\u200d criticized the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s decision to boost Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, stating that the real danger for \u200cDemocrats in the upcoming election is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-has-been-scaling-back-policing-for-a-decade-the-results-have-been-deadly\/\" title=\"Baltimore Has Been Scaling Back Policing For A Decade. The Results Have Been Deadly.\">people staying home<\/a> rather\u200d than voting for Donald \u2064Trump. Venture capitalist Jason Palmer also called \u2064on Biden \u2063to step down and open up the race to a younger generation of\u200c candidates. He mentioned his\u200d top six\u200b candidates for \u2064the presidency and suggested that Biden should pass the mantle onto the next generation of leaders. Biden&#8217;s \u200ccognitive decline and performance during debates were highlighted \u2064as concerns, \u2063leading some to believe that he may not\u2062 win \u200dthe campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" 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Lim<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-05T05:00:00-04:00\">July 5, 2024 5:00 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1694594\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 <\/strong>Democratic presidential candidate and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marianne-williamson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Marianne Williamson<\/a> has denounced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democratic National Committee<\/a> for not encouraging a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-drops-loyalty-pledge-from-gop-primary-ballot-requirements\/\" title=\"Florida removes loyalty pledge from GOP primary ballot requirements.\">competitive primary process<\/a> this election cycle as the party contends with concerns over President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s age and mental acuity after last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/debates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the wrong thing to do to suppress other candidates,\u201d Williamson told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> of the DNC. \u201cHow can a party saying we\u2019re working to save democracy say, except in this case, where we believe that even if democracy is so important that we need to suppress democracy?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that this sort of blew up in their face, I think it almost was going to blow up in somebody\u2019s face regardless of what the specific detail was, because it was simply wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was not in alignment with the highest integrity, it wasn\u2019t in alignment with democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williamson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and 2024, and she suspended her campaign in February after the South Carolina primary before relaunching it a couple of weeks later following its Michigan counterpart and more than 101,000 Democrats voting \u201cuncommitted\u201d in protest of Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Middle East<\/a> policy. She described Biden\u2019s debate as an \u201cunfortunate experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden lost his train of thought during his first 2024 debate against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> and, at times, stood with his mouth agape. Biden, his campaign, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> have conceded it was \u201ca bad night,\u201d attributing it to a cold, his multiple trips abroad, and even over-preparation.<\/p>\n<p>But that did not prevent Rep. Lloyd Doggett (R-TX) from becoming the first Democratic lawmaker to call for the president to step down as the party\u2019s nominee this week. Doggett\u2019s announcement has been met with an escalation in outreach from Biden to elected Democrats on Capitol Hill and around the country. The president also granted an interview to ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like, no, this, we\u2019ve got to change course here,\u201d Williamson said of the debate. \u201cWe need to recalibrate. We need to recalibrate quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the situation, I think that the real danger for Democrats in this year\u2019s election is not people voting for Donald Trump, people have the right to vote for Donald Trump, it\u2019s a free country and so forth, the real problem for us electorally is not people voting for Trump, the problem is people staying home,\u201d she added. \u201cI was obviously running against the president a long time before there was any sign of the cognitive decline issues or anything like that, but we all know what we know, we all see what we see, so everybody, whether you\u2019re on the Right or the Left, everybody can see what\u2019s happening with the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for another Democratic primary challenger, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dean-phillips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Dean Phillips<\/a> (D-MN), did not respond to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>\u2018s request for comment. Phillips stood down from House Democratic leadership because of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But venture capitalist Jason Palmer, who surprised political pundits on Super Tuesday by earning more votes than Biden in American Samoa, did, though he did not criticize the DNC, which has been scrutinized since 2016 over its response to Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u2018s (I-VT) competing campaign against eventual nominee former Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough situation,\u201d Palmer told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cAlmost always, incumbent presidents don\u2019t really have any competition. This just happens to be the first time we\u2019ve had an 81-year-old incumbent president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Doggett, Palmer, who underscored that his own campaign remains suspended, called on Biden to \u201cstep down and open up the race to a younger generation of candidates.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Palmer said he would not publicly support one contender, but his top six candidates are Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a>, Govs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wes-moore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Wes Moore<\/a> (D-MD), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jb-pritzker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>J.B. Pritzker<\/a> (D-IL), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gretchen-whitmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Gretchen Whitmer<\/a> (D-MI). Those governors attended a White House meeting with Biden on Wednesday, which was organized to ease their concerns but has raised more questions after he confirmed a doctor\u2019s consultation that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had denied earlier that day. He also reportedly told the governors he would stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been percolating in everybody\u2019s mind for a little while,\u201d Palmer said. \u201cHe\u2019s 81 years old, there\u2019s been a stream of videos that have come out of him looking very frail, and then seeing him on the debate stage for 90 minutes and the answers that he gave to the questions it, you know, he had a very low bar to clear during that debate, and he didn\u2019t clear that bar on some very basic things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just became really clear that, even though he\u2019s passed a number of pieces of bipartisan legislation, he\u2019s been a great transitional president these last few years, he\u2019s not going to win this campaign,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s really urgent for Joe Biden because it\u2019s his choice to do the right thing and be like George Washington and pass the mantle onto the next generation of leaders. \u2026 The timing of the convention is almost perfect for there to be four to six candidates who compete in multiple debates and then we go to an open convention. I think it could be a really exciting time for democracy in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former House Minority Whip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jim-clyburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jim Clyburn<\/a> (D-SC) has similarly endorsed the idea of a \u201cmini primary\u201d before next month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democratic National Convention<\/a> in Chicago if Biden does decide to stand aside.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s political future appears to rest, in part, on his first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terry-mcauliffe-on-defense-after-saying-parents-shouldnt-tell-schools-what-to-teach\/\" title=\"Terry McAuliffe on Defense After Saying Parents Shouldn\u2019t Tell Schools What To Teach\">post-debate interview<\/a> with Stephanopoulos, which will air Friday on ABC in its entirety, along with a full transcript posted online.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the DNC for comment.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1694594\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1694594\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Williamson criticized the DNC for not promoting a competitive primary process in the current election cycle, expressing disappointment in their decision to boost Joe Biden. 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