“I read a quote the other day that said sunsets are proof that the end is beautiful,” she said in a YouTube video. “And today, the time has come to end my campaign for president, but I want to see the beauty in it, and as a donor, as a supporter, as a team, and on this journey. I really want all of you who have supported me so incredibly, to see the beauty in the volunteers too. ”
Williamson also failed to run in the 2020 Democratic primary, but officially launched his second campaign last February as President Biden's first challenger to reelection.
“President Biden is doing everything he can to help people survive an unjust system. A Democratic president should do more,” she told The Washington Post at the time. “We need to provide people with more than stress relief. We need to propose fundamental economic reform. Nothing else will win Republicans in 2024.”
Ms Williamson said her conditions include universal healthcare, tuition-free higher education, paid family leave, free childcare and an increase in the minimum wage. She later became the only Democratic candidate to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
But her campaign had little impact. In the New Hampshire primary, Mr. Williamson received about 4 percent of the vote, even though he focused much of his campaign in the Granite State. Mr. Biden, who is not on the New Hampshire ballot, received nearly 64% of the vote as a write-in candidate, and Mr. Biden's other leading challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), won nearly 64% of the vote as a write-in candidate. Got about 20%.
Michael Scherer contributed to this report.
