Washington (CNN) Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson posted and then deleted a tweet Wednesday morning that suggested the "power of mind" could deter Hurricane Dorian from slamming into the US.

"The Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas...may all be in our prayers now. Millions of us seeing Dorian turn away from land is not a wacky idea; it is a creative use of the power of the mind. Two minutes of prayer, visualization, meditation for those in the way of the storm," her now-deleted post read.

This was the tweet: pic.twitter.com/6VXhdO8Avk — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2019

She replaced the tweet with a post offering prayer for "people of the Bahamas, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas."

"May the peace of God be upon them and their hearts be comforted as they endure the storm," she wrote.

In an email to CNN on Wednesday, Patricia Ewing, a campaign spokeswoman, said Williamson's original post "was a metaphor" and explained that the tweet was replaced because it "led to confusion."

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