Elizabeth Warren Tag

Elizabeth Warren's campaign is stuck in neutral at best, in reverse at worst. She just isn't getting any momentum despite assembling a high-powered campaign team before anyone else, and announcing before any other major candidates. The DNA rollout was an unmitigated disaster, and compounded Warren's original sin, her false claim to be Native American.

Elizabeth Warren has tried desperately to keep herself in the news cycle, as newcomers like Beto, and possible contenders like Joe Biden, dominate the campaign coverage. Even fresh-face "Mayor Pete" is getting better coverage than Warren. Warren's tactic is to roll out every couple of days a big, nation-changing plan, like breaking up big tech. It doesn't seem to have helped her at all in the polls, where she is unable to break out of the single-digit pack.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a serious problem, and it just won't go away.  She tried explaining that her high cheekbones, family lore, and Pow-wow Chow recipes meant that she was Native American; she issued denials that she claimed Native American heritage status for years; she tried partnering with Native Americans on gambling rights; and now she's trying out support for reparations for Native Americans in the vain hope this one will fly . . . and disappear her decades-long ethnic fraud problem.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is on the 2020 campaign trail, and she is quickly learning that there is no escaping her well-documented ethnic fraud in repeatedly claiming to be Native American, apparently to further her career. While attending a campaign event in Georgia, Warren was heckled by a man who shouted "Why did you lie?"  Holding up a sign with "1/2020" written on it, the man repeatedly shouted at her as he was escorted out of the venue by security.

As one of my less savory duties for LI readers, I get to watch things like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) formally announce her 2020 presidential campaign.  As we like to say, I watch, so you don't have to . . . though you can, of course—the video is embedded below. There were many interesting things about her Saturday announcement, but perhaps the most interesting didn't take place in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but in the media coverage of her announcement.  Even in Warren-friendly publications, the weight of her questionably-motivated presentation of herself as a Native American throughout her career hangs in the air around her like an albatross carcass, stinking up even her proudest moment as she announces her run for the Democrat nomination for president.

Democrats are right to be worried that Elizabeth Warren's Native American controversy is eating away at her viability as a national general election candidate. The analogy to Hillary's emails is on point, an oozing campaign wound that saps the candidate's strength. The recent revelation that Warren signed her Texas State Bar registration card in 1986 as an "American Indian" comes on the heels of the disastrous DNA test rollout in October 2018.

Elizabeth Warren's Native American Controversy just got worse for her. A lot worse. Not only did she falsely claim to be Native American for employment purposes, it turns out she registered as "American Indian" when she filled out her Texas Bar card.

Elizabeth Warren launched her presidential exploratory committee on New Year's Eve day 2018, including the now-infamous beer drinking live stream. She is expected to launch her official campaign next week. Ever since her 2012 Senate campaign, Warren has attempted to shift the conversation away from her Native American controversy. The problem is two-fold.