Flanagan’s Senate bid reopens Warren’s Native American controversy: Joe Concha
Joe Concha, a Washington Examiner columnist, mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage claim after Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee and member of the White Earth Nation, announced her run as the “first Native American woman” senator. concha sarcastically suggested Flanagan should visit Warren to clear up the record,implying Warren falsely claimed Native American heritage,referencing her controversial DNA test results from 2018 that showed she had only a tiny fraction of Native American DNA. Warren later apologized to the Cherokee Nation for sharing those results, and her prior identification as an “American Indian” on a 1986 legal document is noted. Concha criticized Warren for her inconsistent claims and questioned why politicians rarely admit when they are wrong, especially regarding her Heritage. The article also mentions ongoing political attacks, including GOP criticism of Flanagan and other campaign issues.
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha mocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Native American heritage claim after Minnesota Democratic Senate nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan announced she is running as the “first Native American woman” senator if elected to the United States Senate.
“I mean, Peggy Flanagan, she better break out that old peace pipe and get over to Sen. Warren’s tipi like pronto, and make sure she corrects the record, or Liz Warren may inflict the ultimate punishment and campaign with her down the stretch while saying ‘that’s my kind of girl,’” Concha said on Fox News’s Hannity Thursday.
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“Unless you’re counting senators that have 1/1024th the DNA of a Native American, then Peggy Flanagan did not break that ceiling, that was Liz Warren,” Concha said. “And for her to try to steal that title from her, oh boy, there’s going to be some real problems the next time these two try to get together on the campaign trail.”
Flanagan is Ojibwe and a member of the White Earth Nation. According to her campaign website, “If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate.”
In 2018, Warren was criticized over the accuracy of DNA test results she released to show she had Native American heritage. In 2019, Warren apologized to the Cherokee Nation for publicly sharing the test results. The Democratic Massachusetts senator had previously identified herself as an “American Indian” on a 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas.
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Fox News anchor Sean Hannity asked Concha why politicians fail to admit when they are wrong.
“That’s the thing, Sean,” Concha said. “Even after the DNA test comes out and says she has 1/1024 the genetic lineage of a Native American, she actually went on social media and said, ‘See? I was right!’ I mean, what the hell? Just say that you got it wrong, or maybe you heard the story wrong, and you used it to get by in your career. It’s a whole bowl of wrong.”
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