Marianne Williamson, a motivational speaker and long shot Democratic presidential candidate, joked that she needed to learn Spanish before she appears on the debate stage in Miami tonight.
“I need to learn Spanish by tomorrow night at 9,” Williamson said Wednesday night on Twitter after three candidates and even a moderator spoke in Spanish during the first Democratic presidential primary debate, involving 10 candidates. Tonight, Williamson will be among another 10.
I need to learn Spanish by tomorrow night at 9.
— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) June 27, 2019
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, 46, was the first candidate to speak switch languages in the Wednesday debate, saying in translated Spanish: “We have to include everyone in our democracy. Every voter needs representation, and every voice must be listened to.”
Sen. Cory Booker appeared to glare at Beto after the congressman had started speaking Spanish, presumably because Booker planned on speaking the language too later in the debate.
The New Jersey senator’s Spanish moment came when he answered an immigration question.
Booker, 50, stumbled through his opening line before he said what translated to: “The situation right now is unacceptable. This president has attacked, has demonized immigrants. It’s unacceptable. I’m going to change that.”
Williamson, 66, who was one of the last candidates to qualify for the debates, will be on stage with front-runners Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Thursday’s debate on MSNBC.
