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.
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“...If Warren had produced a DNA test that confirmed she was half Native American...”
If that were true the evidence would be obvious and there would not be a question of Warren’s veracity.
Isn’t #CherokeeChallenge trending on Twitter? See if YOU’RE DNA makes you more native american than Lieawatha.
Might? Might? Might have made things worse?
LOL - rolling on the floor laughing..
I think she had something like a 32 point lead in a poll for her Senate run.
I will be interested to see if her poll numbers actually drop over this.
That right there is why Professors like Sen. Warren live there life in a bubble and make horrible leaders, assuming "Theories" are as good as "facts/reality".
Too bad she didn't recall that lesson about why you should never "ass u me".
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