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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has her eyes set on the 2020 presidential race, but the controversy surrounding her claims of Native American ancestry may have cost her political future, RealClearPolitics associate editor A.B. Stoddard argued Monday night on the "Special Report" All-Star panel. [Snip] In October, Warren released the findings of a DNA test that show that she may be 1/1,024th Native American, in a bid to quiet her critics. She had been accused of claiming she had Native American heritage to advance her career, something President Trump has repeatedly suggested. Stoddard ... expressed that Warren's deflection from the ancestry...

Former presidential candidate John Edwards knew his ex-mistress, Reille Hunter, was receiving payments from his former campaign finance chairman, according to the National Enquirer, the publication that broke the story of Edwards' affair. What's more, says the Enquirer, it has "uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying" Hunter. After months of denials, Edwards admitted to the affair, but vehemently denied fathering a baby with Hunter, or knowing she was being paid. Edwards said, "I've never paid a dime of money to any of the people that are involved. I've never asked anybody to pay a dime of money, never...

<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The South for Howard Dean is foreign territory. The presidential aspirant grew up in New York's East Hampton and Manhattan and made his name in Vermont. His only time in the South was spent working on a Florida farm as a teenager.</p>

Sen. John Edwards, trying to restart his flagging presidential campaign, scheduled a second straight soft interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulus Aug. 14 without making himself available to the other three Sunday talk shows in proper rotation. On July 10, Edwards wrote Tim Russert of NBC's "Meet the Press" that "I'm looking forward to finding the time to come to your show." The senator admittedly had not performed well under Russert's questioning May 5, 2002. Edwards has kept away from "Meet the Press" since then, while finding time to engage in easygoing dialogue aboard his campaign van with Stephanopoulus that was...

Kirk fund-raiser to feature Clinton Candidate criticized former president who will attend NY event 07/10/2002 By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News Democratic Senate candidate Ron Kirk, who in April said Bill Clinton needed to "rehabilitate" himself before lending a hand on the campaign trail in Texas, is using the former president for a top-dollar fund-raiser in New York. The event, organized by Kirk supporters and billed as a reception honoring the former Dallas mayor, is scheduled July 17 at Jimmy's Downtown in Manhattan with Mr. Clinton as the special guest. It is the first known Kirk...

I spent about eight years residing on the southern Gulf Coast, marking the passage of time via encephalitis warnings, busted love affairs, migrations of poorly-dressed tourists and ample doses of rum. Don't get me wrong. I actually had some pretty good times in the Sunshine State. After all, I was there during the Reagan years. It was hard to stay depressed for very long when The Gipper was running the country, and harder yet considering that my primary diet consisted of shrimp, stone crabs, grouper sandwiches and a bottomless mug of Captain Morgan's. Florida can be a pretty weird place,...