EXCLUSIVE — Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson has denounced the Democratic National Committee for not encouraging a competitive primary process this election cycle as the party contends with concerns over President Joe Biden‘s age and mental acuity after last week’s debate.

“It was the wrong thing to do to suppress other candidates,” Williamson told the Washington Examiner of the DNC. “How can a party saying we’re 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?