She joins a handful of other declared candidates for DNC chair, including Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler and Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair Ken Martin and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. Jamie Harrison, the current chairman, isn't running for reelection.

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.

"My experience of what went wrong has given me insight into what needs doing to make things right," Williamson wrote Thursday.