Author Marianne Williamson announced she had met the qualifications to make the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate.
“We just hit 1% in our 3rd poll! I’m deeply grateful to the many people who expressed early support for my candidacy. Today we reached an important milestone and we can go full steam ahead from here,” Williamson said Thursday on Twitter.
Williamson, an inspirational author and friend of Oprah Winfrey, is running a campaign based on the idea that kindness can fix the country.
“We have a choice in this country. We have someone … [who] has harnessed fear, racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, some of the worst faces of the human character for political purposes,” Williamson said.
“There is only one way to override that, and that is to harness love, decency, compassion, forgiveness, and mercy, love for each other and love for our country, and love for our unborn great grandchildren. We need to harness that for political purposes,” she said.
This month, Williamson had reached the other standard to make the debate stage by reporting 65,000 individual donors.
In 2014, Williamson attempted to fill the California seat held by Rep. Henry Waxman with the support of actresses Jane Lynch and Eva Longoria.
