Reacting to an announcement by Marianne Williamson that she now wants to run the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after a failed run for Congress and two attempts to be the party's presidential nominee, not one panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" gave her a chance of success.
After Christmas, the author and speaker announced her intention to run for the leadership spot, saying in a video posted online, "I feel that I can bring a level of expertise to the process of lifting up this possibility of victory over the next two and four years in a way that will not occur if we are only looking traditional means of politicking in order to make that happen.”
After watching a clip of her announcement, MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend expressed skepticism and asked, "I was wondering, who keeps telling Marianne Williamson to run for all these different positions. She ran for president, now DNC chair, maybe Senate, I don't know, next cycle. It is very interesting to me. I don't know if Marianne Williamson is what the majority of DNC members will be looking for."
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Politico's Sam Stein added, "I did actually chronicle some of her candidacies; her campaigns were disastrous internally, a lot of infighting, very poor money management. That's not what the party is going to want, not what the party needs."
"The third thing is just an understanding of how to handle this modern media ecosystem and the real debate happening now in the Democratic Party is where do you put your message and who are your messengers and can you build a media infrastructure on your own or do you need to push forward with the existing system and try to go on to conservative alt media and podcasts and things like that," he continued. "These are three big questions that face the next DNC chair. I don't think Marianne Williamson is going to have the answers that most of the party members want, but I'm curious to see how they treat her candidacy."
According to MSNBC regular Katty Kay, there are also questions about Williamson's demeanor when questioned.
"I interviewed her too," she pointed out. "She's pretty thin-skinned and when you challenge her about stories of staff being unhappy with her leadership, you don't get very far. She's pretty prickly about it –– I don't think that's what the DNC chair needs to be right now."
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