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Elizabeth Warren might have actually made things worse with her DNA gambit
CNN ^ | Updated 10:13 AM ET, Tue October 16, 201 | Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Posted on 10/16/2018 9:39:02 AM PDT by conservative98

(CNN)Twenty-four hours after Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren shocked the political world with a five-minute video (and a mountain of documentation) aimed at putting to bed the controversy over her claims of Native American heritage, it's becoming increasingly clear the strategy amounts to a swing and a miss.

Warren's goal was to take the issue of her heritage off the table for nervous Democrats and to show that she was ready, willing and able to stand up to President Donald Trump if and when the time came that she was the party's nominee against him in 2020. The problem is that, when you strip away all of the glitz of her well-produced video, you are left with this: There's still no certainty that Warren is, in any meaningful way, Native American.

Yes, Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante tells Warren in the video that "the facts suggest that you absolutely have a Native American ancestor in your pedigree." But the estimates of just how much Native American blood Warren actually posses range from 1/64th to a whopping 1/1024th. Which, um, ain't a lot.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; chriscillizza; clintonnonnews; cnn; dna; dopeydems; election2018; election2020; elizabethwarren; fakenews; fauxahontas; fauxcahanta; highcheekbones; massachusetts; schoolmarm; slingingbull; trump; warren
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To: conservative98

This has sure been a fun month!


21 posted on 10/16/2018 9:49:06 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: conservative98

The issue of her being an American Indian is off the table. She is clearly not an American Indian nor is she remotely related to an American Indian ancestor.


22 posted on 10/16/2018 9:51:54 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: conservative98

23 posted on 10/16/2018 9:52:01 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: conservative98

Man, when even CNN throws you under the bus - you have really blown it.


24 posted on 10/16/2018 9:52:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: conservative98

Of course she did. Democrats lie. It’s who they are. And then they get found out, and lie some more! ;)


25 posted on 10/16/2018 9:52:49 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: conservative98
😂😂😂😂😂 Trump will not run the next election like the last one
26 posted on 10/16/2018 9:52:51 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: conservative98

If CNN is telling a Liberal that they screwed themselves? That ain’t FAKE NEWS...

Ok, pain, boom, boom boom....

Luvvin every minute of it!


27 posted on 10/16/2018 9:52:57 AM PDT by Professional
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To: conservative98

translation: We here at CNN will be pushing Kamala Harris.


28 posted on 10/16/2018 9:53:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: conservative98

Elizabeth Warren HAS A TIN EAR... is that an Indian trait?


29 posted on 10/16/2018 9:53:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats protect MS-13, Open Borders and Criminals. Our side wants JOBS NOT MOBS....)
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To: conservative98

And Liberace *might* have been gay.


30 posted on 10/16/2018 9:53:56 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Conserv

It’s the Cherokee Nation’s statement that ruined her. They don’t want her either


31 posted on 10/16/2018 9:54:13 AM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you , Julian!)
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To: cuban leaf

Fun month?

Fact is, that it’s highly likely that we haven’t seen nothing yet. It takes time for a cabinet to take power, for a President to hit full stride, momentum...

You toss in a red wave midterm and we might be seeing something unprecedented in modern US history. Fundamental change for our country, and a repudiation of progressive liberalism. Imagine that?


32 posted on 10/16/2018 9:55:17 AM PDT by Professional
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To: conservative98

If by “made things worse” they mean that the Internet is experiencing a ridicule storm roughly the size of a major solar flare, then yeah, you might say that made things worse.


33 posted on 10/16/2018 9:56:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: CottonBall

I really thought she was going to be able to bribe some tribal entity into claiming her.


34 posted on 10/16/2018 9:57:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: conservative98

How is it that Elizabeth Warren has no one with on ounce of sense in her staff? Democrats are all evil, but there are intelligent people who love power and control over others. She should have at least a few smart minions in a position to stop her from doing exceptionally stupid things.

The correct response would have been something like: “My family has long had stories about our Cherokee ancestry. In response to recent questions that prompted me to look for the truth, I had a DNA test performed. While the test showed, perhaps, a small amount of Native American ancestry, any such ancestry is too small to be relevant, and there is no way to tell whether any Native American ancestry was in fact Cherokee. I’m rather embarrassed to find that our family legends were for all practical purposes not accurate, and I apologize for misstating that past. Now that I know the truth, I will stick to those facts.”

Nope. She had to double down on stupid. Now even Oren Hatch is making fun of her: “DNA Test Results 1/1032 T-Rex.” When you’re right, stand up for your view (President Trump is the world’s expert there). When you’re wrong, back down immediately (Senator Warren is the worlds biggest failure in that area).


35 posted on 10/16/2018 9:59:30 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: conservative98

DEMS are scraping the barrel.
This Fauxahountis is just plain stupid.


36 posted on 10/16/2018 9:59:37 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: conservative98

Question: What person identifies as a race from 8 generations ago or more?

Ans: A nut or someone wanting to gain an advantage by doing so.


37 posted on 10/16/2018 10:00:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: conservative98
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38 posted on 10/16/2018 10:00:29 AM PDT by backspace (Please don't laugh at my tagline)
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To: seawolf101

So did B.Hussein who should be outed next. Without question he posed as a foreign student, it’s why the literary agent put “born in Kenya” on his booklet. She claims it was a fact checking error by her assistant. Well where did her assistant get this information? There’s only one possible source: B. Hussein himself. Where else would it come from? Either she got it from him verbally or he had this information down on records. She obviously didn’t make it up for no reason and why would anyone else? It was 100% from him. Back then he was passing himself off as a foreign student and I even doubt his birth name was Barack Hussein Obama. Why would a woman name her kid after a guy who immediately runs away the second he learns she is pregnant?


39 posted on 10/16/2018 10:00:43 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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To: conservative98

I believe the rat party is set up in two competing camps, and has been for a while - Clinton vs Obama. Warren is in the Obama camp, and CNN aint.


40 posted on 10/16/2018 10:02:31 AM PDT by lacrew
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