Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Depending on what you read, Elizabeth Warren “stumbled,” is facing a “backlash,” created a “fiasco,” or even “started a whole new controversy” this week when she released the results from a DNA test showing strong evidence she has a very distant Native American relative. You’d think her widely presumed 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was basically over before she even launched it. But those who are writing off bring out your dead.” “The whole thing of this is you figure out your assets. You figure out your liabilities,” said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who has advised presidential candidates from Jimmy Carter to Bernie Sanders. “If there’s anything out there, you get it out, and then you move on.” Thus, the point of Warren’s exercise was to deal with the complications that have arisen from claiming in the past that she was Native American, and, after that, her longstanding insistence that she has Native American ancestry despite the lack of documentary evidence. The DNA test showed there was evidence of a Native American in her family 6 to 10 generations ago. The results support the notion, which was first raised in her 2012 campaign via a Warren family newsletter, that her great-great-great-grandmother O.C. Sarah Smith was partly Native American. Making nuanced arguments isn’t easy against the likes of President Trump, who relishes labeling his opponents with a simple phrase that forces the rival onto Trump’s turf. It would be... Link to the full article to read more