Marianne Williamson announces she is suspending her presidential campaign

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson announced that she is officially suspending her campaign.

“I ran for president to help forge another direction for our country. I wanted to discuss things I felt needed to be discussed that otherwise were not. I feel that we have done that,” she wrote to supporters on her website in an entry published on Friday.

The best-selling self-help author vowed to stay in the race following a mass lay-off her national campaign staff, leaving her with just a “skeletal staff “and her long-time assistant who stepped in to be her Interim campaign manager.

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