Marianne Williamson presidential campaign staff, 2024
Date: November 5, 2024  |
2024 • 2020 • 2016 |
Last updated September 19, 2023.
This page contains a select list of Marianne Williamson's (D) national campaign staff. Staff are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles.
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- Campaign staff in context
- Overview of Marianne Williamson's campaign
- National staff
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Here are links to the candidates' staff pages:
- Joe Biden (D)
- Dean Phillips (D)
- Marianne Williamson (D)
- Ryan Binkley (R)
- Chris Christie (R)
- Ron DeSantis (R)
- Nikki Haley (R)
- Asa Hutchinson (R)
- Vivek Ramaswamy (R)
- Donald Trump (R)
Here are the links to staff pages for candidates who withdrew from the Democratic or Republican primaries:
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) (Kennedy withdrew from the Democratic primary and announced an independent presidential run on October 9, 2023.)
- Doug Burgum (R) (Burgum withdrew from the Republican primary on December 4, 2023.)
- Larry Elder (R) (Elder withdrew from the Republican primary on October 26, 2023.)
- Will Hurd (R) (Hurd withdrew from the Republican primary on October 9, 2023.)
- Perry Johnson (R) (Johnson withdrew from the Republican primary on October 20, 2023.)
- Mike Pence (R) (Pence withdrew from the Republican primary on October 28, 2023.)
- Tim Scott (R) (Scott withdrew from the Republican primary on November 12, 2023.)
- Corey Stapleton (R) (Stapleton withdrew from the Republican primary on October 13, 2023.)
- Francis Suarez (R) (Suarez withdrew from the Republican primary on August 29, 2023.)
Campaign staff in context
Campaign staff plays an important role in the presidential primaries. The makeup of a candidate's staff can signal the strength of their support from influential party activists and whether they are aligning with a particular faction or group within the party. Eric Appleman of Democracy in Action describes candidates' efforts to hire staffers as a "race for talent, both nationally and in key early states." He adds, "The goal is to assemble a team of top talent that can work together effectively to mobilize resources, boost the candidate and his or her message, and ultimately secure the party's nomination."[1]
Presidential candidates will typically have a national staff, which is overseen by a campaign manager and assisted by political consultants, senior advisors, professional polling firms, and key stakeholders such as interest group leaders and major financial supporters. They also build organizations in individual states that are overseen by state directors and staffed by party activists and political professionals well-versed in the particular politics of the area. Candidates often appoint elected officials and other important figures in their party's coalition as chairs of their national campaign and state-level campaigns.[1]
Williamson campaign overview
Marianne Williamson (D) is an author and former 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate. She announced her candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on February 23, 2023.[2]
Williamson has focused her campaign on economic issues, including universal healthcare, tuition-free higher education, paid parental leave, and a minimum wage increase. In her campaign announcement video, she said, "we all owe President Biden a debt of gratitude for defeating President Trump in 2020. But with the things that they're going to be throwing at us in 2024, we need to submit to the American people an agenda of fundamental economic reform."[3]
She ran in the Democratic primary for president of the United States in 2020. She entered the race on January 28, 2019, and ended her campaign on January 10, 2020.[4]
National staff
The table below shows a partial list of national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager, senior advisors, political directors, communications directors, field directors, and the national press secretary. They are presented alongside their positions in the campaign, their most recent positions prior to the campaign, and their Twitter handles. To recommend additions, please email us at editor@ballotpedia.org.
- See also: Presidential election campaign managers and key staffers, 2024
| Marianne Williamson presidential campaign national staff, 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Carlos Cardona[5] | Campaign manager | New Hampshire state director, Marianne Williamson 2024 presidential campaign | @CardonaLebron |
| Duran Brown[6] | Press secretary | Unknown | N/A |
Notable staff departures
The list below shows notable staff departures found in media reports.
| Marianne Williamson presidential campaign staff, 2024 (Departures) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Previous position | Departure date | New position |
| Roza Calderon[7] | Campaign manager | June 20, 2023 | Unknown |
| Peter Daou[8] | Campaign manager | May 20, 2023 | Unknown |
Williamson in the news
This section features up to five recent news stories about Williamson and her presidential campaign. For a complete timeline of Williamson's campaign activity, click here.
- January 3, 2024: Williamson campaigned in Las Vegas, Nevada.[9]
- January 2, 2024:
- Williamson campaigned in Las Vegas, Nevada.[10]
- Williamson campaigned in Reno, Nevada.[11]
- January 1, 2024: Williamson campaigned in Reno, Nevada.[12]
- December 18, 2023: Williamson campaigned in Derry, Manchester, and Candia, New Hampshire.[13][14]
- December 17, 2023: Williamson campaigned in Keene, New Hampshire.[15]
Marianne Williamson presidential campaign staff, 2020
The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[16] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.
Williamson confirmed on January 2, 2020, that she had laid off her campaign staff nationally. The following list reflects previously employed staff members.[17]
| Marianne Williamson presidential campaign national staff, 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Position | Prior experience | Twitter handle |
| Patricia Ewing | Campaign manager | Partner, PLUS Strategic Advisors | N/A |
| Eleanor LeCain | Policy director | President, The Breakthrough Way, 2008-2019 | N/A |
| Juan Rodriguez | National press secretary | N/A | N/A |
| Jeff Marshall | National data director | Data manager, David Wilson Brown for U.S. House, 2018 | N/A |
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Democracy in Action, "Building Campaign Organizations (2019)," accessed May 10, 2019
- ↑ The Hill, "Marianne Williamson confirms she will run for president in 2024," February 23, 2023
- ↑ YouTube, "Marianne Williamson is Running For President," March 4, 2023
- ↑ The New York Times, "Marianne Williamson Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race," January 10, 2020
- ↑ Politico, "Marianne Williamson announces her third campaign manager," June 30, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Peter Daou on May 22, 2023," accessed May 30, 2023
- ↑ Politico, "New Williamson campaign manager was once accused of swindling fellow Democrats for concert tickets," June 8, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Peter Daou on April 13, 2023," accessed May 19, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Marianne Williamson," January 2, 2024
- ↑ Twitter, "Marianne Williamson," January 2, 2024
- ↑ Twitter, "Marianne Williamson," December 26, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Marianne Williamson," December 26, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Williamson on December 17, 2023," accessed December 18, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Williamson on December 17, 2023," accessed December 18, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "Williamson on December 16, 2023," accessed December 18, 2023
- ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
- ↑ WMUR, "Democrat Marianne Williamson lays off campaign staff nationally, including NH," January 2, 2020
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