Spiritual self-help author and lecturer Marianne Williamson suspended her Democratic presidential campaign on Friday. Williamson made the announcement in an email to supporters Friday afternoon. "The primaries might be tightly contested among the top contenders, and I don't want to get in the way of a progressive candidate winning any of them," Williamson wrote in an email to supporters. "As of today, therefore, I'm suspending my campaign."The decision to suspend her campaign comes one week after she laid off her entire campaign staff, but later said she was "regrouping." "I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible opportunity to share our message. With caucuses and primaries now about to begin, however, we will not be able to garner enough votes in the election to elevate our conversation any more than it is now," Williamson's email said. Williamson had not qualified for the Democratic debate next week. After launching her campaign in January 2019, Williamson told CNN she was running to bring a "moral and spiritual awakening" for America. Williamson's campaign has been little-noticed in recent months, as focus shifted to the Democratic contenders who were meeting the party's fundraising and polling thresholds to qualify for debates and Williamson repeatedly missed the cut. Williamson's most notable policy proposal was likely her call for at least $100 billion 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but potentially as much as $500 billion 바카라 게임 웹사이트� in reparations for the descendants of slaves. She said the money would be divvied up by a council of black leaders."America will not have the future we want if we're not willing to clean up the past," she said in a TV ad in South Carolina focused on the issue.In summer 2019, she announced she was moving to Des Moines, Iowa. That meant she'd be on the ground full-time in the first state to cast votes in the nominating process. CNN contributed to this report.