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<\/a>Marianne Williamson participates in the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo\/Paul Sancya)<\/p><\/div>\n
By Theodore Bunker
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Marianne Williamson announced Thursday her presidential campaign raised “about $3 million” in the third fundraising quarter of the year, about twice what she raised in the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Williamson, who did not qualify for the September and October Democratic presidential debates because of low polling numbers, told\u00a0Yahoo Finance<\/a> in an interview Thursday, “we made about $3 million,” in the third quarter.<\/p>\n “It’s so obscene, the part that money plays on our political system,” she continued. “Most of us live in a universe where $3 million is like a big deal. In presidential fundraising, it’s like she just squeaked by.”<\/p>\n Several of Williamson’s fellow Democratic contenders have outpaced her fundraising this quarter, with Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raising $25.3 million, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., raising $6 million. She also lags behind South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who raised $19.2 million, and Andrew Yang, who raised $10 million.<\/p>\n “But 3 million dollars definitely says there are a lot of people out there saying you stay\u00a0and you keep going, and I appreciate that so much.”<\/p>\n “The American people are on high alert,” she added later, saying, “they have a lot of power in their hands.”<\/p>\n