Marianne Williamson told DailyMail.com there's a 'well-strategized' effort on behalf of the 'left' to keep her out of the third Democratic debate.

'There's well-strategized effort to smear me. There's no doubt about that,' she said Friday night at the Iowa Wing Ding dinner, a local party fundraiser.

She said she didn't expect that kind of behavior from her Democratic rivals.

'It's very frustrating because I like to think on the left we don't do things like that. So it's been a bit of a wake-up call,' she noted.

'But apparently there's some very powerful forces that want to make sure I'm not in that third debate so I must be doing something right if they've worked so hard to create that,' she added.

Williamson had earlier said that Dem rivals were trying to smear her, saying: 'The words are anti-science, anti-medicine. She’s crazy. She’s dangerous... It's a mischaracterization'.

The spiritual leader and author was a breakout star in the first two debates and was the most googled candidate after the second Democratic confab - even though she received the least amount of speaking time.

She said despite the attacks on her character, she's in the race to stay.

'I'm in it. And as long as my heart says I'm in it, I'm it,' she told DailyMail.com

Marianne Williamson told DailyMail.com there's a 'well-strategized' effort on behalf of the 'left' to keep her out of the third Democratic debate

Marianne Williamson with Joe Biden at the Wing Ding, a local party fundraiser in Iowa

Candidates must have 130,000 unique donors and register at least 2 percent support in four polls ahead of the August 28 deadline to make September's debate in House, which will be the third meeting of the Democratic candidates.

Williamson is short 13,000 donors.

'I'm almost at the point of the donors needed and we'll find out in the next week or so whether I've made it in that 2 per cent in those polls and how much effect those two debates have had,' Williamson said.

She also said she was hurt by the smears on her professional career, which includes allegations she is anti-vaccine and has advised people not to take their medication - which she denies.

'I have a 35 year career and I stand on what I've done and I stand on what I've written,' she told DailyMail.com.

Earlier Friday, Williamson charged she was the victim of sexist smears by her political rivals as she pursues the Democratic presidential nomination.

Williamson blamed her peers - who she would not name - and charged there's 'an ancient strain of misogyny' at work.

'I've heard things said about me, for which there is absolutely no evidence, no truth and things about what there's plenty of evidence to the contrary,' she told reporters at the Iowa State Fair.

Marianne Williamson charged she's victim of sexist smears by her political rivals

Williamson visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday - a political right of passage

'I have seen great minds, some of my intellectual heroes in this country, repeating stories about me that come from websites and tweets that on the level of the National Enquirer. I've been rather shocked, I must say,' she noted.

She blamed it on the fact she is a woman running an unconventional political campaign.

'It’s obviously a well-strategized intentional smear,' she said. 'The talking points are obvious. The words are anti-science, anti-medicine. She’s crazy. She’s dangerous. She’s a grifter. The talking points are obvious. And I have to tell you something – there’s an ancient strain of misogyny which says about any woman that doesn’t toe the line that is the status quo to just back up. She’s scary. She’s dangerous.'

Last week, Williamson got into a furious back-and-forth with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as he grilled her on her past statements about anti-depressants, leading to questions about whether she has advised people not to take their medication

'I’m a Jew. I go to the doctor. This idea of me not being for medicine is preposterous,' she said.

She argued someone is pushing the narrative to hurt her politically.

'It is it is a characterization, a mischaracterization a caricature sure that clearly somebody find to their political benefit is to create and spread,' she said.

But she declined to name any suspects when asked by DailyMail.com who she was referring to.

'You might know better than I. I don’t know,' she said.

Williamson's barely making a blip in the polls and has not qualified for the third presidential debate where candidates need 130,000 unique donors and to hit 2 per cent in four pre-determined polls.

Williamson wouldn't name names when asked which of her rivals - seen here on the debate stage in Detroit - were smearing her campaign

Williamson shared her thoughts on politics with Iowa voters

She told reporters in Iowa she is 13,000 donors short of that goal but she also needs to see her poll numbers rise to make the cut.

She brushed aside questions on how she may do that.

'I don’t wake up in the morning and think about what people want to hear or voters want to hear,' she said. 'I wake up in the morning and I try to the best of my ability to say on any given day what I believe matters most and what needs to be said and that, in my mind, is leadership.'

She visited the Iowa State Fair on Friday - a political right of passage as candidates campaign to win the state's important February caucus.

She used her 20 minutes on the 'soap box' - the small stage area where contenders make their pitch to voters - to talk about her beliefs and share her thoughts on politics.

'Democracy is radical and love is radical,' she told the large crowd who gathered to listen.

'You cannot look to the political establishment to fix the problem, they are the problem,' she noted to applause from the spectators.

Williamson talks to a voter at the Iowa State Fair

Voters listened with curiosity and skepticism.

'I don't know if I'm board with everything she's got to say,' said Tom Ringenberg, who drove up from Kansas City to hear the Democratic contenders speaking at the fair.

He's uncommitted to a contender yet, as is an Iowa voter who only wanted to go by his first name of Erik.

'She's interesting,' he said of Williamson. 'She's different.'