Elizabeth Warren doesn’t think her claim to have Native American DNA was a huge mistake

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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By Avi Selk

The Washington Post

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is defending her decision to release a DNA test and political ad asserting she has a distant Native American ancestor — even as the Cherokee Nation condemns her for it, Republicans mock her, and political analysts wonder if she has crippled any hopes she had of competing in the 2020 presidential election.

“Donald Trump goes in front of crowds multiple times a week to attack me,” Warren told members of the Boston Globe editorial board Tuesday, referring to the president’s relentless mockery of a six-year-old accusation that the senator used to identify as a Native American at law school in the 1990s.

“I got this analysis back, and I made it public,” Warren continued, the newspaper reported. “How do you sit here if you know what it is, and people ask, and you don’t give an answer?”

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