Posted on 03/12/2018 8:53:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Senator Elizabeth Warren told CNN: "I am not running for president in 2020." In perhaps related news, Warren has declined to take a DNA test to establish once and for all how much -- if any -- Native American blood she has in her.
Acosta also asked if she gets upset when President Donald Trump refers to her as "Pocahontas."
"It's about my family's story. Because my family's story is deeply a part of me and a part of my brothers," Warren said. "It's what we learned from our parents. It's what we learned from our grandparents. It's what we learned from our aunts and uncles.
"I went to speak to Native American tribal leaders and I made a promise to them that every time President Trump wants to try to throw out some kind of racial slur, he wants to attack me, I'm going to use it as a chance to lift up their stories," she added.
The left loves science -- as long as it serves their political purposes. Otherwise, not so much.
Warren doesn't want to find out how much Native American ancestry she has because no matter what the percentage is, it won't be enough for most people. Besides, for the left, the issue isn't DNA. In an age when you can claim you're any sex you want, you can also call yourself black even if you're white and Native American even if it's based on family legends.
Her explanation for not taking the DNA test is dishonest.
I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere, Warren said of her ancestry on NBCs Meet the Press.
The Massachusetts Democrat has been under increased pressure to provide evidence of her Native American roots, with President Trump repeatedly mocking her as Pocahontas as recently as Saturday.
An editorial this month in Massachusettss Berkshire Eagle urged Warren to buy a DNA test for $99 to resolve the issue once and for all.
All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer, the paper said.
Asked whether shed take an ancestry test, Warren said she wants to hold onto the folklore of her parents love story.
My mother and daddy were born and raised in Oklahoma, Warren said. My daddy first saw my mother when they were both teenagers. He fell in love with this tall, quiet girl who played the piano. Head over heels. But his family was bitterly opposed to their relationship because she was part Native American. They eventually eloped.
How nice. But the claim she makes about never using it for anything and not getting any benefits is belied by the fact that at both Pennsylvania University and Harvard, she told administrators she had Native American ancestors.
She would invariably get continuously wrecked on her super dubious Native American claim, that would be enough to trash any chances at winning....
She knows that an unverified claim of Cherokee ancestry way back doesn’t carry the clout of black or Hispanic ancestry. Kamala Harris doesn’t need to take a DNA test to have people believe she has black and Asian ancestry. The Democrats have not won with a white person at the top of the ticket since 1996.
Isn’t it fairly easy to obtain dna.....water glass, fork, etc.
There was an episode of Bizarre Foods where Andrew Zimmern visited a tribe in central Maine. In keeping with their traditions, beaver meat is an important staple food. Since it’s only about a 4 hr drive from metro Boston from where they live I wonder, does Liz Warren eat beaver? Not insinuatin’ nuttin’, just askin”
My wife has researched her heritage and she is 5/16 Cherokee and the rest Danish/Scotch/Iris. Complexion wise she is casper white, the only inkling of Indian is cheekbones and dark brown eyes. Her Mom looks like a Indian princess, go figure...
If she decides to run..if she changes her mind...then I would start hitting her with that DNA testing again...just beat her to death with it...keep on calling her bluff.
Call center or casino. :-)
I kind of get it - her story about why she says she has Indian in her bloodline. Our family has that same lore with no proof. (Although Indians we’ve met have recognized it - not sure how.) Of course, nobody in my family ever tried to exploit that to get a leg up in a career. That’s the difference.
“Native America”...perhaps because a lot of Oklahoma used to be injun territory?
Probably not. Massachusetts tends to keep reelecting incumbent Democrats. The only real shot Republicans have is when there's a vacancy.
Plus there's nobody with much name recognition running against her. And suburban swing voters will probably go Democrat because they still don't like Trump.
She won't lose.
But she's got the approval of the party establishment and the liberal groups and hasn't done anything to antagonize them so nobody on her left would get in.
Interesting data. It ought to be coordinated with her husband’s data as well. I thought she got the Harvard job because they wanted him. But it looks like they could have been angling for her as a “minority” hire.
NOPE...
HILLARY CLINTON is Political History...She is finished...She can’t afford to try for a TURD TIME and strike out..
She is hurting her self more and more with in the DNC Party. they don’t want her.and she is now under the Microscope as is the Crime Family Foundation...and she is going to be destroyed...
She will not run again...JMO
I can’t tell you how disappointed I am. We could have had our first Cherokee president.
Liar, liar...buckskin on fire.
You make some very convincing arguments.
I will change my position to: she may try to run again.
She has enough flatters, hanger-ons and sycophants to convince her that she was cheated out of the presidency and she should run again.
However, the major donors, party leaders, and so forth may have had enough of her. If Warren is not running in 2020; some may look to Hillary to try a comeback.
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