The race to lead the Democratic Party in the wake of Kamala Harris’s election defeat expanded on Thursday as author and two-time candidate Marianne Williamson announced that she was seeking the role.
Williamson is a long-shot candidate for the job and enters an already crowded field as the Democratic Party faces an internal debate about its future. Harris’s defeat in swing states across the board led to Donald Trump’s first popular vote victory, a crushing blow for the Democrats who also saw two incumbent senators unseated, throwing total control of the legislative and executive branches into Republican control.
