Advisers to Sen. Elizabeth Warren are counseling her to issue a forceful apology for releasing the results of a DNA test that revealed a sliver of American Indian blood in her family tree.
Democrats blasted the liberal Massachusetts senator in October for drawing attention to her biggest political liability in the middle of a tense midterm election cycle.
Warren's DNA analysis, conducted by a privately hired scientist who is an expert on Native American genomics, showed that her Native American ancestry was between 0.09 percent and 1.5 percent.
The low end of that scale equates to 1/1,024th.
A landmark study published in 2014 in the American Journal of Human Genetics found that, on average, European-Americans have 0.18 per cent Native American blood – twice as much.
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to be the speech writer on this one.
ReplyDeleteToo little, too late, too bad.
ReplyDeleteThey should advise her not to run...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she is watching the Chiefs game or the Redskins game today?
ReplyDeleteHad to flee her town and get married in secret because her mom was half Cherokee.
ReplyDeleteSo she thought she was Native American but she's not. She can make excuses but we are not buying it.
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